Nembrotha megalocera
| Nembrotha megalocera | |
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| Nembrotha megalocera in the Red Sea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Nembrotha |
| Species: | N. megalocera |
| Binomial name | |
| Nembrotha megalocera Yonow, 1990[1] | |
Nembrotha megalocera is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae. It was first described in 1990.[2]
Distribution
This species is known from the Red Sea.
Description
Nembrotha megalocera is a large black and orange-yellow nembrothid that grows to at least 45 mm in length. It has a blue foot. The rhinophores are red and purple and the gill stalks are white and yellow.
Ecology
Nembrotha megalocera eats colonial ascidians.[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/nembmega
- ↑ , Yonow, N. (1990) Red Sea Opisthobranchia 3: The orders Sacoglossa, Cephalaspidea, and Nudibranchia: Doridacea (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 11: 286-299.
- ↑ http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3748
External links
- "Sea Slug Forum" info at:
- http://www.nudipixel.net/species/nembrotha_megalocera/ Nembrotha megalocera at nudipixel
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