Phestilla melanobrachia

Phestilla melanobrachia
An orange individual of Phestilla melanobrachia, head end towards the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

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

Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Tergipedidae
Genus: Phestilla
Species: P. melanobrachia
Binomial name
Phestilla melanobrachia
Bergh, 1874
Synonyms

Phestilla melanobranchia [spelling error]

Phestilla melanobrachia is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tergipedidae.

There are two known color forms of Phestilla melanobrachia, black and orange.

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