Phidiana militaris

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Phidiana militaris
Phidiana militaris, Koh Phangan 2.jpg
Koh Phangan, Thailand
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P. militaris
Binomial name
Phidiana militaris
(Alder & Hancock, 1864) [1]
Synonyms
  • Eolis militarisAlder & Hancock, 1864 (original combination)
  • Caloria militaris(Alder & Hancock, 1864)
  • Hervia dangeriRisbec, 1953
  • Learchis howensisBurn, 1966

Phidiana militaris is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae. [2]

Distribution

This species was described from India. It has been reported from Oman, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Borneo and the Philippines. [3] [4] In 2016 three specimens of this species were observed eating hydroids on a sunken submarine in Haifa Bay off Israel, probably having reached the Mediterranean as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea. [5]

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References

  1. Alder J. & Hancock A. (1864). Notice of a collection of nudibranchiate Mollusca made in India by Walter Elliot Esq. with descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 5 (3-4): 113-147 page(s): 144, Plate 33, Figure 15
  2. WoRMS (2009). Phidiana militaris (Alder & Hancock, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404960 on 2010-05-18
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2001 (January 7) Phidiana militaris (Alder & Hancock, 1864). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  5. Shevy B-S Rothman; Henk K. Mienis; Bella S. Galil (2017). "Alien facelinid nudibranchs in the Eastern Mediterranean: first report of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) and report of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) 30 years after its previous sighting". BioInvasions Records. 6 (2): 125–128. doi: 10.3391/bir.2017.6.2.06 .