Nembrotha megalocera | |
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Nembrotha megalocera in the Red Sea | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Doridina |
Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
Family: | Polyceridae |
Genus: | Nembrotha |
Species: | N. megalocera
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Binomial name | |
Nembrotha megalocera Yonow, 1990
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Nembrotha megalocera is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae. It was first described in 1990. [2]
This species is known from the Red Sea.
Nembrotha megalocera is a large black and orange-yellow nembrothid that grows to at least 45 mm in length. It has a blue foot. The rhinophores are red and purple and the gill stalks are white and yellow. [3]
Nembrotha megalocera eats colonial ascidians.