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Phyllodesmium
Phyllodesmium is a genus of predatory sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Myrrhinidae.
These nudibranchs occur in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean and warm temperate waters of Japan, Tasmania and South Africa.
27 branches of this genus, most-observed first

made-up phyllodesmium
speciesPhyllodesmium serratum

Poindimie's Phyllodesmium
speciesPhyllodesmium poindimiei

Yellow-tipped Phyllodesmium
speciesPhyllodesmium briareum

Phyllodesmium macphersonae
speciesPhyllodesmium macphersonae

Phyllodesmium crypticum
speciesPhyllodesmium crypticum

Phyllodesmium opalescens
speciesPhyllodesmium opalescens

coral nudibranch
speciesPhyllodesmium horridum

Phyllodesmium magnum
speciesPhyllodesmium magnum

Phyllodesmium koehleri
speciesPhyllodesmium koehleri

Phyllodesmium longicirrum
speciesPhyllodesmium longicirrum

Phyllodesmium jakobsenae
speciesPhyllodesmium jakobsenae

Coleman's Phyllodesmium
speciesPhyllodesmium colemani

Mimic Nudibranch
speciesPhyllodesmium rudmani

Phyllodesmium iriomotense
speciesPhyllodesmium iriomotense

Phyllodesmium tuberculatum
speciesPhyllodesmium tuberculatum

Phyllodesmium lizardense
speciesPhyllodesmium lizardense
Phyllodesmium pinnatum
speciesPhyllodesmium pinnatum

Phyllodesmium kabiranum
speciesPhyllodesmium kabiranum

Phyllodesmium parangatum
speciesPhyllodesmium parangatum

Phyllodesmium undulatum
speciesPhyllodesmium undulatum

Phyllodesmium hyalinum
speciesPhyllodesmium hyalinum

Phyllodesmium pecten
speciesPhyllodesmium pecten

Phyllodesmium karenae
speciesPhyllodesmium karenae

Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum
speciesPhyllodesmium acanthorhinum

Phyllodesmium lembehense
speciesPhyllodesmium lembehense
Phyllodesmium guamense
speciesPhyllodesmium guamense
Phyllodesmium fastuosum
speciesPhyllodesmium fastuosum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 54650.