2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Nembrotha lineolata
Lined nembrotha
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
- Size
- 60 mm
- Native range
- Tropical Indo-West Pacific, from the western Indian Ocean to the western Pacific.
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Description
A Nembrotha patterned with fine brown lines on a pale background, giving it the common name 'lined Nembrotha'. Like its relatives it feeds on ascidians.
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Identification
Pale yellowish to whitish ground colour with many fine chestnut-brown longitudinal lines along the back and sides. Rhinophore sheaths, oral tentacles, foot edge and gill stalks are blue; front of head reddish-brown; gills mostly reddish-brown.
Similar species
Nembrotha chamberlaini and N. mullineri are greenish to white with orange to red markings rather than fine brown lines.
Habitat & diet
Habitat
Coral reefs, on or near ascidian colonies; recorded around 17 m.
Food
Ascidians, including Clavelina, Rhopalaea and Oxycorynia fascicularis.
