Phylliroe

Phylliroe

Taxobox
name = "Phylliroe"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Nudibranchia
familia = Phylliroidae
genus = "Phylliroe"
genus_authority = Peron and Lesueur, 1810
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Phylliroe" is a genus of pelagic nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Opisthobranchia.

These nudibranchs are ribbon-like, almost transparent, parasites that in their larval stage penetrate the bell of certain pelagic jellyfish and devour the host from the inside outward.

Distribution

World-wide in warm seas, but seldom seen.

pecies in the genus Phylliroe

* "Phylliroe atlantica" Bergh, 1871
* "Phylliroe bucephalum" Peron and Lesueur, 1810

References

*
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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