OKINAWAN
OPISTHOBRANCH OF THE WEEK
Phestilla minor Rudman, 1981 (10mm)
Opisthobranch of the Week Data
Taxonomy:
- Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
- Suborder: Aeolidina
- Family: Tergipedidae
Frequency on Okinawa:
Collection Data:
- Individual Collection No: RFB #2989-D
- Location: Seragaki, Okinawa (26o 30.4'N, 127o 52.6'E)
- Date: 27 May, 1992 [only one individual collected]
- Depth: 5ft (1.5m) [only one individual collected]
- Water temperature at collection depth: Not recorded
- Size: TL 10mm [only one individual collected]
- Specimen deposited: California Academy of Sciences
[brackets indicate range for all Okinawa-collected specimens of the species]
Species Account:
Phestilla minor is considered to be very rare on Okinawa as I have seen and collected only a single individual over a period of more than twenty years of diving here. The featured individual was collected beneath a slab of coral rubble amid mixed silty-sand and coral rubble. The animal was found upon approximately ten small rod-shaped ova.
Page Date: 17 Nov '97
Page Modification Date: 01 Aug '11
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