Phyllidia exquisita

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

Phyllidia exquisita
The nudibranch Phyllidia exquisita, head end towards the right, Mirissa, Sri Lanka.
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. exquisita
Binomial name
Phyllidia exquisita
Brunckhorst, 1993[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Lion Island, Papua New Guinea. It has also been found in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.[3]

Description

This nudibranch has a grey coloured dorsum with smaller white and larger yellow tubercles in irregular rows separated by black lines. The rhinophores are yellow and there is a yellow-orange margin at the edge of the mantle across the front of the head and the first quarter of the sides of the body.[3]

Diet

This species feeds on a sponge.

References
  1. Brunckhorst D.J. (1993) The systematics and phylogeny of phyllidiid nudibranchs (Doridoidea). Records of the Australian Museum suppl. 16: 1-108.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Phyllidia exquisita Brunckhorst, 1993. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-14
  3. Rudman, W.B., 1999 (January 12) Phyllidia exquisita Brunckhorst, 1993. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.


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