Phestilla poritophages explained

Phestilla poritophages is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.^[1] The species was named after its prey genus, the hard coral Porites.^[2]

Distribution

This species was described from 1 km south of Kunduchi, Tanzania.

Notes and References

1. Picton, B. (2017). Phestilla poritophages (Rudman, 1979). 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.