| Risbecia nyalya | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Risbecia |
| Species: | R. nyalya |
| Binomial name | |
| Risbecia nyalya (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)[1] |
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Risbecia nyalya is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae. [2]
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This nudibranch is found in the Caribbean.
Risbecia nyalya has a blue or purple body with a white and orange-yellow lined mantle. The gills and rhinophores are purple or blue.
The maximum recorded length is 35 mm.[3]
Minimum recorded depth is 2 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 7 m.[3]
It feeds on sponges.[4]