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Phestilla minor Porites eating Nudibranch

Phestilla minoris commonly referred to as Porites eating Nudibranch. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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Phestilla minor, Komodo 2007


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lexID:
8798 
AphiaID:
536541 
Scientific:
Phestilla minor 
German:
Porites fressende Nacktschnecke 
English:
Porites Eating Nudibranch 
Category:
Nudibranchs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Nudibranchia (Order) > Trinchesiidae (Family) > Phestilla (Genus) > minor (Species) 
Initial determination:
Rudman, 1981 
Occurrence:
Africa, Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Komodo (Komodo Island), New Caledonia, Philippines, Tansania, Western Pacific Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Habitats:
Coral reefs, On living corals, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0.2" - 0.35" (0.5cm - 0.9cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Coral polyps = corallivorous, Food specialist, Predatory 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Phestilla panamica
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-01-26 20:44:28 

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Phestilla minor Rudman, 1981

Phestilla minor has reported from East Africa, Hawaiii and the Great Barrier Reef and has a wide Indo-West Pacific distribution.

This small sea slugs are seldom more than 7mm. They lives and feeds on colonies of the Porites corals. Phestilla minor tend to form pairs, grows rapidly,produce about 10 egg masses with about 120 egge in each mass.

Synonymised names
Tenellia minor (Rudman, 1981)

External links

  1. ScienceDirect (en). Abgerufen am 27.01.2024.
  2. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 26.01.2024.
  4. Seaslugs.free.fr (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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