Phyllodesmium karenae

Phyllodesmium karenae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Facelinidae
Subfamily: Favorininae
Genus: Phyllodesmium
Species: P. karenae
Binomial name
Phyllodesmium karenae
Moore & Gosliner, 2009[1]

Phyllodesmium karenae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Matotonggil Rock, Mabini, Batangas Province, Luzon Island, Philippines.

References

  1. Moore, E. & T. Gosliner, 2009. Three new species of Phyllodesmium Ehrenberg (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Aeolidoidea), and a revised phylogenetic analysis. Zootaxa 2201, 30–48, Open Access.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Phyllodesmium karenae. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-10-06
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