Phestilla melanobrachia
Bergh, 1874
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: An individual of the dark brown colour form. The anterior cerata on the left side have been autotomised sometime in the past and are regenerating. The pink coils on the right side are the egg sacs of internal copepod parasites.
| Location: | North East Coast, Taiwan |
| Photographer: | Dave Peltier |
| Taken on: | February 17, 2008 |
| Viewed: | 365 times |
| Posted: | 10 months ago |
| Updated: | 10 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Opisthobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Aeolidina |
| Family: | Tergipedidae |
| Species: | Phestilla melanobrachia |