Phyllidia elegans Elegegant Phyllidia

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Scientific:: Phyllidia elegans
German:: Elegante Phyllidia
English:: Elegegant Phyllidia

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Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Phyllidiidae (Family) > Phyllidia (Genus) > elegans (Species)
Initial determination:: Bergh, 1869

Occurrence:: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Red Sea, Thailand, Vanuatu
Sea depth:: 5 - 30 Meter
Size:: up to 3.15" (8 cm)
Temperature:: 68 °F - 82.4 °F (20°C - 28°C)
Food:: Food specialist
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

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Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-05-21 20:30:41
Last edit:: 2017-04-29 19:27:39

Info

Phyllidia elegans, Brunckhorst, 1993

Phyllidia elegans is characterized by the pale granular background colour and black swirls on the mantle, and by yellowish-orange spots.

Phyllidia elegans is known from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Andaman Sea, Myanmar, the Red Sea, the Mariana Islands, north Sulawesi, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.

Synonyms:
Phyllidia multifaria Yonow, 1986
Phyllidia schupporum Fahrner & Schrodl, 2000

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Euctenidiacea (Suborder) > Doridacea (Infraorder) > Phyllidioidea (Superfamily) > Phyllidiidae (Family) > Phyllidia (Genus) > Phyllidia elegans (Species)

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Seaslugforum (en). Abgerufen am 04.09.2021.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 04.09.2021.

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