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Phyllidia willani Warty Sea Slug


Profilbild Urheber Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater

Phyllidia willani , 30mm, Anilao


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lexID:
10685 
AphiaID:
536634 
Scientific:
Phyllidia willani 
German:
Warzenschnecke 
English:
Warty Sea Slug 
Category:
Nudibranchs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Phyllidiidae (Family) > Phyllidia (Genus) > willani (Species) 
Initial determination:
Brunckhorst, 1993 
Occurrence:
Papua New Guinea, Philippines 
Sea depth:
0 - 50 Meter 
Size:
0.39" - 1.18" (1,8cm - 3,6cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 80.6 °F (°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Food specialist, Sponges 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
None 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2017-04-29 20:17:00 

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Phyllidia willani Brunckhorst, 1993

The holotype of this species was collected at Mactan Island, Philippines.

This Warty sea slug has a translucent mantle, spotted with opaque white. There are large yellow-capped tubercles in the middle of the back. and smaller and without yellow caps towards the edges of the mantle. On the mantle there are two longitudinal black lines ( may be sometomes broken)

Phyllidia willani feeds exclusively on sponges.

Similar to Phyllidia ocellata, Phyllidia babai and Phyllidia exquisita.

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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