Phyllidia elegans
| Phyllidia elegans | |
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| File:Babosa de mar (Phyllidia elegans), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-22, DD 154.jpg | |
| A live individual of Phyllidia elegans, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Phyllidiidae |
| Genus: | Phyllidia |
| Species: | P. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllidia elegans | |
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Phyllidia elegans, also known as the elegant phyllidia,[2] is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.[3] It is found in shallow water in the Red Sea and the tropical Indo-Pacific region.[4]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This species has been found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Andaman Sea, Myanmar, the Red Sea, the Mariana Islands, north Sulawesi, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.[5]
Description
[edit | edit source]This animal can be distinguished by a pale-coloured foot having a single median longitudinal black line on the sole, light pink dorsal tubercles commonly tipped in yellow, and black lines on the lateral margins of the sole.[4][6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Bergh, L. S. R. 1869. Bidrag til en Monographi af Phyllidierne. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Stiftet af Henrik Kroyer, series 3, 5:357-542, pls. 14-24.
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- ^ a b Rudman, W.B., 1999 (January 12) Phyllidia elegans Bergh, 1869. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Brunckhorst, D.J. (1993). The Systematics and Phylogeny of Phyllidiid Nudibranchs (Doridoidea). Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Photos of Phyllidia elegans in the Sealife Collection
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