Phyllidia multituberculata
| Phyllidia multituberculata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
| Family: | Phyllidiidae |
| Genus: | Phyllidia |
| Species: | P. multituberculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllidia multituberculata C. R. Boettger, 1918[1] | |
Phyllidia multituberculata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from Pulu Bambu in the Aru Islands, south-west of Papua New Guinea. It has been reported from the Indian Ocean.[3]
Description
This species has previously been confused with Phyllidia ocellata.[4]
Diet
This species feeds on a sponge.
References
- ↑ Boettger, Caesar Rudolf (1918). Die von Dr. H. Merton auf den Aru- und Kei- Inseln gesammelten Wassermollusken. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Frankfurt-am-Main 35:125-145, pls. 8-9, page 129, taf. 8.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Phyllidia multituberculata C. R. Boettger, 1918. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-30.
- ↑ Yonow N. (2012) Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 197: 1–129.
- ↑ Yonow, N. (1996). Systematic Revision of the Family Phyllidiidae in the Indian Ocean Province: Part 1 (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia: Doridoidea). Journal of Conchology 35: 483-516.
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