Phidiana militaris explained

Phidiana militaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.^[1]

Distribution

This species was described from India. It has been reported from Oman, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Borneo and the Philippines.^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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
2. [Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell A. W. B.]
3. 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 . 10.3391/bir.2017.6.2.06 . BioInvasions Records . 6 . 2 . 125–128. free .
4. Rudman, W.B., 2001 (January 7) Phidiana militaris (Alder & Hancock, 1864). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.^[2] 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.^[3]

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