Phyllidia varicosa | |
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Phyllidia varicosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Phyllidioidea |
Family: | Phyllidiidae |
Genus: | Phyllidia |
Species: | P. varicosa |
Binomial name | |
Phyllidia varicosa (Lamarck, 1801)[1] |
Phyllidia varicosa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.[2]
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This species is widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific Oceans including the central Pacific and the Red Sea.
This is a large species that can be distinguished by its numerous (3 to 6), longitudinal, tuberculate notal ridges. The ridge and bases of the tubercles are a blue-grey colour. The tubercles are capped in yellow. The foot sole has a black longitudinal foot stripe. The rhinophoral clavus possesses 27 to 30 lamellae.[3]