Rostanga pulchra

Rostanga pulchra
A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
Superfamily: Doridoidea
Family: Discodorididae
Genus: Rostanga
Species: R. pulchra
Binomial name
Rostanga pulchra
MacFarland, 1905 [1]

Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.

Description

Size up to 30 mm in length.[2]

Habitat

Found intertidally under boulders and in shallow water, normally feeding on the sponge Ophlitaspongia pennata. [2]

References

  1. MacFarland, F. M. (1905) A preliminary account of the Dorididae of Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 18: 35-54.
  2. 1 2 Rudman, W.B., 2002 (February 4) Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/rostpulc

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