Summary Description
Godiva quadricolor is a sea slug or nudibranch and is usually found underneath stones, amongst fouling species such as mussels and ascidians, and in seagrass beds in the mid to low intertidal and subtidally to 15 m. In southern Queensland they were found on clean, coarse sand 5-6 m off a beach (Willan, 2004). They were also found in biofouling in a harbour in Ghana (Edmunds, 2015). It has adapted to a variety of environmental conditions including brackish water (Lombardo and Marletta, 2019)

Godiva quadricolor grows up to maximum of 58 mm in length, usually about 35 mm long. It has a broad foot and a long narrow tail (Willan, 2004). The body is a translucent fawn colour, darker above with blue-white speckles and larger blotches over the back. A brown and white line runs from halfway along the back to the tip of the tail. The foot is translucent white. Its head has two lobes, is orange-brown in colour, and has long white, pointy oral tentacles with brown-orange tips. There is a blue streak running from the oral tentacles to the rhinophores (sensory tentacles) which are tall and pointed. Fleshy cerata (projections of the body wall) occur in clusters over the body. The cerata have blue and orange rings below the yellow cnidosac (which contains stinging cells). Nudibranchs often display a range of colours with varying degrees of intensity (Korshunova et al., 2018).