Phyllodesmium Koehleri

Phyllodesmium koehleri is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.

Description

Cerata are spoon-like, flattened with concave and convex side, broadening in upper half. Cerata are covered with large spiny tubercles, these more elongate along cerata edges. Body, oral tentacles, rhinophores and foot are translucent with some white dusting. Brownish digestive gland is shining through transparent body wall of cerata, giving some specimens a rather brownish colour. It has long tuberculate rhinophores and small thin and smooth oral tentacle.

Distribution

Known from southern Queensland, Australia; Okinawa, Japan; Sulawesi, Indonesia, New Britain, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.