Nembrotha aurea

Nembrotha aurea
Kinondo, Diani, Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Polyceroidea
Family: Polyceridae
Subfamily: Nembrothinae
Genus: Nembrotha
Species: N. aurea
Binomial name
Nembrotha aurea
Pola, Cervera & Gosliner, 2008

Nembrotha aurea is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae. It was first described in 2008.[1]

Distribution

This species is known from the western Indo-Pacific Ocean.

Description

Nembrotha aurea is a large creamy-yellow nembrothid that grows to at least 30 mm in length. The body is marked with brown longitudinal lines. The rhinophores are reddy-brown. The mantle is orange-red and the gill stalks and branches are white-electric blue while the gill pinnae are deep red.

Ecology

Nembrotha aurea eats colonial ascidians. [2]

References

  1. Sea Slug Forum, Pola, M., Cervera, J.L. and Gosliner, T.M. 2008. Revision of the Indo-Pacific genus Nembrotha (Nudibranchia: Dorididae: Polyceridae), with description of two new species. Scientia Marina 72(1): 145-183..
  2. http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3748
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