Biology:Phidiana militaris
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida |
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| Species: | P. militaris
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Phidiana militaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]
Distribution
This species was described from India . It has been reported from Oman, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Borneo and the Philippines .[3][4] In 2016 three specimens of this species were observed eating hydroids on a sunken submarine in Haifa Bay off Israel, probably having reached the Mediterranean as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea.[5]
References
- ↑ Alder J. & Hancock A. (1864). Notice of a collection of nudibranchiate Mollusca made in India by Walter Elliot Esq. with descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 5 (3-4): 113-147 page(s): 144, Plate 33, Figure 15
- ↑ WoRMS (2009). Phidiana militaris (Alder & Hancock, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404960 on 2010-05-18
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2001 (January 7) Phidiana militaris (Alder & Hancock, 1864). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1
- ↑ Shevy B-S Rothman; Henk K. Mienis; Bella S. Galil (2017). "Alien facelinid nudibranchs in the Eastern Mediterranean: first report of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) and report of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) 30 years after its previous sighting". BioInvasions Records 6 (2): 125–128. doi:10.3391/bir.2017.6.2.06.
Wikidata ☰ Q5680814 entry
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