Pleurobranchus mamillatus Mamillate Pleurobranch, side-gilled slug

Pleurobranchus mamillatus is commonly referred to as Mamillate Pleurobranch, side-gilled slug. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:: 9765
AphiaID:: 599476

Scientific:: Pleurobranchus mamillatus
German:: Flankenkiemer
English:: Mamillate Pleurobranch, Side-gilled Slug

Category:: Ślimaki nagoskrzelne

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Pleurobranchida (Order) > Pleurobranchidae (Family) > Pleurobranchus (Genus) > mamillatus (Species)
Initial determination:: Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Occurrence:: Australia, Bali, Corea, Great Barrier Reef, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Réunion , South-Africa, Sulawesi, Western Indian Ocean
Sea depth:: 1 - 50 Meter
Size:: 0.39" - 11.81" (1cm - 30cm)
Temperature:: °F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C)
Food:: Food specialist, No reliable information available, Sea squirts
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Pleurobranchus albiguttatus
Mosaik-Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus areolatus
Atlantischer Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus digueti
Diguets Flankenkiemer, Pazifischer Flankenkiemer, Warzige Flankenkiemerschnecke
Pleurobranchus forskalii
Forsskals Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus grandis
Große Flankenkiemer-Schnecke
Pleurobranchus hilli
Hills Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus iouspi
Pleurobranchus lacteus
Pleurobranchus mamillatus
Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus membranaceus
Membran Flankenkiemer, Highland Dancer
Pleurobranchus nigropunctatus
Mosaik Flankenkiemerschnecke
Pleurobranchus niveus
Pleurobranchus peronii
Perons-Flankenkiemer, Papillen Pleurobranchus
Pleurobranchus reticulatus
Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus semperi
Pleurobranchus sishaensis
Pleurobranchus testudinarius
Flankenkiemerschnecke
Pleurobranchus varians
Variabler Flankenkiemer
Pleurobranchus weberi
Webers Flankenkiemer

More related species in this lexicon:

Pleurobranchus crossei
Warziger-Flankenkiemer

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-06-12 19:47:31
Last edit:: 2022-12-22 07:27:57

Info

Pleurobranchus mamillatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

This large sidegill slug inhabit sandy or bottom with coral rubble and vcan be found to 50 m depht.The background colour is a very light gray, mottled gray, light tan, dark brown, and black. On the dorsum are prominent projecting papillae.

Sea slugs genus Pleurobranchus feeds mainly on ascidians.

Synonym:
Pleurobranchus moebii

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Pleurobranchomorpha (Order) > Pleurobranchoidea (Superfamily) > Pleurobranchidae (Family) > Pleurobranchus (Genus) > Pleurobranchus mamillatus (Species)

External links

Homepage Christian Knost (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Rfbolland.com (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Foto: La Réunion, Westlicher Indischer Ozean

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