2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Kabeiro phasmida
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
- Size
- 4–15 mm · max 20 mm
- Depth
- 0–23 m
- Native range
- Western Pacific: the Philippines and southern Japan (Okinawa, Amami-Oshima)
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Description
A slender, cryptic arminid nudibranch described from Anilao, Philippines in 2015. It lives among and feeds on thecate hydroids, laying tightly coiled cream egg masses along the hydroid branches.
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Identification
Elongate, yellow-cream to tan, with white conical tubercles along the notum margins. About ten pairs of cerata with a holly-leaf-like texture from layered tubercles. Rhinophores much longer than their sheaths, white-tipped.
Similar species
Kabeiro rubroreticulata has a red reticulate pattern and pseudobranchs, and lacks the small notal tubercles.
Habitat & diet
Habitat
Mixed and sand-rubble slopes on pinnate hydroids, 0–23 m.
Food
Pinnate thecate hydroids.