Phyllodesmium longicirrum
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| Phyllodesmium longicirrum | |
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| Phyllodesmium longicirrum, head end towards the lower left, crawling on its prey the soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Aeolidioidea |
| Family: | Facelinidae |
| Subfamily: | Favorininae |
| Genus: | Phyllodesmium |
| Species: | P. longicirrum |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllodesmium longicirrum (Bergh, 1905) | |
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Phyllodesmium longicirrum, common name the solar-powered phyllodesmium, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Facelinidae.
Phyllodesmium longicirrum crawling on the soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum.
Distribution
The distribution of Phyllodesmium longicirrum includes Australia and Indonesia.[1]
Description
The length of the slug is 33–140 mm.[1]
This species contains photosynthetic zooxanthellae.,[1] which allow it to draw energy from sunlight. Hence its common name, the Solar-Powered Phyllodesmium.[2]
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A closeup of the nudibranch, showing the clusters of zooxanthellae
Ecology
Phyllodesmium longicirrum feeds on soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum (family Alcyoniidae).[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wagner D., Kahng S. E. & Toonen R. J. (2009). "Observations on the life history and feeding ecology of a specialized nudibranch predator (Phyllodesmium poindimiei), with implications for biocontrol of an invasive octocoral (Carijoa riisei) in Hawaii". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 372(1-2): 64-74. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2009.02.007. PDF.
- ↑ Humann, Paul and DeLoach, Ned, Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific (2010), p. 380
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