Phyllodesmium rudmani | |
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detail of cerata of Phyllodesmium rudmani | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea |
Family: | Facelinidae |
Subfamily: | Favorininae |
Genus: | Phyllodesmium |
Species: | P. rudmani |
Binomial name | |
Phyllodesmium rudmani Burghardt & Gosliner, 2006[1] |
Phyllodesmium rudmani is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Facelinidae.
The specific name rudmani is in honor of malacologist William B. Rudman.
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The distribution of Phyllodesmium rudmani includes North Sulawesi, Indonesia and Luzon, the Philippines.[1]
The length of the slug is less than 45 mm.[2]
Its cerata are similar to (mimicry) closed polyps of soft coral of the genus Xenia.[1]
Phyllodesmium rudmani contain endosymbiotic zooxanthellae of the genus Symbiodinium.[1]