Phestilla sibogae explained

Phestilla sibogae is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.^[1] The species feeds on the hard coral genus Porites. ^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Indonesia. It was previously treated as a synonym of Phestilla lugubris but is now considered distinct due to differences in larval development and adult morphology to be a distinct species.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Picton, B.; Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Phestilla sibogae Bergh, 1905. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-09.
2. Rudman . W.B. . Further studies on the anatomy and ecology of opisthobranch molluscs feeding on the scleractinian coral Porites . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . April 1981 . 71 . 4 . 373–412 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01136.x.
3. Faucci . Anuschka . Toonen . Robert J. . Hadfield . Michael G. . Host shift and speciation in a coral-feeding nudibranch . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 2007 . 274 . 1606 . 111–119 . 10.1098/rspb.2006.3685 . 18 October 2006 . free. 17134995 . 1679885 .