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Spotted Foot Nudibranch
Tayuva lilacina
Tayuva lilacina is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Discodorididae. A number of species descriptions are considered to be synonyms.
From the article Tayuva lilacina on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
This species was described from Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Islands. It has been reported widely in the Indo-Central Pacific and from the Pacific coast of Mexico and the Canary Islands. This wide distribution suggests that it is probably a species complex, but it has been considered to be an invasive species.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Minimum recorded depth is 0.5 m. Maximum recorded depth is 63 m. Tayuva lilacina feeds on Haliclona caerulea according to the in situ observations on the Pacific coast of Mexico. It is probably highly specialized on this sponge.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123428.