Phyllidia exquisita
| Phyllidia exquisita | |
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| The nudibranch Phyllidia exquisita, head end towards the right, Mirissa, Sri Lanka. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
| Family: | Phyllidiidae |
| Genus: | Phyllidia |
| Species: | P. exquisita |
| Binomial name | |
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Phyllidia exquisita Brunckhorst, 1993 |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea
Phyllidia exquisita is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.
This species was described from Lion Island, Papua New Guinea. It has also been found in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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.
This species feeds on a sponge.
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