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Description
Phyllidiella is a genus of nudibranchs in the family Phyllidiidae; the type species is P. pustulosa, and Wikipedia gives about 14 living species. Like the rest of the family they feed on sponges. P. pustulosa is very common in the Indo-West Pacific, reaches about 70 mm, and molecular work shows it is a species complex.
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Identification
The body is dark with colourful tubercles. In P. pustulosa the body is black with pink, grey or pale greenish tubercles in three median clusters, a pale pink mantle edge, black rhinophores and broad triangular oral tentacles with black tips. Species within the genus are hard to separate because of cryptic diversity.
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Species in this genus (10)
Phyllidiella annulata
Phyllidiella granulata
Phyllidiella granulata
Phyllidiella granulata
Phyllidiella granulata
Phyllidiella hageni
Phyllidiella lizae
Phyllidiella lizae
Phyllidiella nigra
Phyllidiella nigra
Phyllidiella nigra
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Phyllidiella rosans
Phyllidiella sp. B
Phyllidiella sp. A
Phyllidiella sp. 2
Phyllidiella zeylanica
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