Lemon pleurobranch | |
---|---|
| |
Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Pleurobranchida |
Family: | Pleurobranchidae |
Genus: | Berthellina |
Species: | B. granulata
|
Binomial name | |
Berthellina granulata (
Krauss, 1848)
| |
Synonyms [1] | |
Pleurobranchus granulatus Krauss, 1848 |
The lemon pleurobranch (Berthellina granulata) is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchidae.
The lemon pleurobranch is a small smooth oval pleurobranch. The animal is yellow- to orange-coloured and often has white spots. There are two rolled rhinophores joined at their bases on the head. Like all other sidegill slugs, there is a single gill on the right hand side of the body.
The animal grows up to 40 mm in total length. [2]
This animal has been found off the whole southern African coast and is known throughout the Indo-Pacific to Hawaii. [3]
The species is thought to be a scavenger. Its egg mass is an upright orange collar of one whorl.