Phyllidia multituberculata

Phyllidia multituberculata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.[2]

Phyllidia multituberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Phyllidioidea
Family:
Phyllidiidae
Genus:
Phyllidia
Species:
P. multituberculata
Binomial name
Phyllidia multituberculata
C. R. Boettger, 1918[1]

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
  1. 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.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Phyllidia multituberculata C. R. Boettger, 1918. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-10-30.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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