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Scyllaea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Scyllaeidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Tritonioidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Scyllaea pelagica, Iridescent nudibranch, Dotidae, Tethys fimbria, Tritoniidae

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Scyllaea is a genus of nudibranchs. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scyllaeidae.

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The slugs live on floating algae like Sargassum, where they have the same color and shape as the alga and can hardly be seen by predators. They feed on hydrozoa growing on the alga.

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Species

Species in the genus Scyllaea include

  • Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
  • Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Scyllaea dracaena Kelaart, 1858: synonym of Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
  • Scyllaea edwardsii A. E. Verrill, 1878: synonym of Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
  • Scyllaea grayae A. Adams & Reeve, 1850: synonym of Scyllaea pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
  • Scyllaea quoyi Gray, 1850: synonym of Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
    • Nomina dubia
  • Scyllaea ghomfodensis Forskål, 1775
  • Scyllaea lamyi Vayssière, 1917

    • References

    Scyllaea Wikipedia
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