🦋 Family

Pleurobranchidae

9 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Pleurobranchida › Pleurobranchidae

Berthella plumula is an acid-secreting hermaphroditic oval sea slug found in Northeast Atlantic and nearby European seas.

Berthella ornata is a spotted endemic New Zealand pleurobranch sea slug that feeds on sponges at night.

Berthella medietas is a small sea slug native to southern Australia and New Zealand that feeds on Oscarella sponges.

Pleurobranchus forskalii is a side-gill sea slug species found in European, Mediterranean, and Red Sea waters.

Pleurobranchus areolatus is a species of side-gill sea slug found across the Atlantic from the Caribbean to Madeira.

Pleurobranchus grandis, the giant pleurobranch, is a large nocturnal marine sidegill slug found across Indo-Pacific waters.

Pleurobranchus albiguttatus, the mosaic pleurobranch, is a possibly endemic southern African nocturnal sidegill slug.

Berthellina citrina is a tropical Indo-Pacific side-gilled sea slug with defensive glands that feeds mostly on sponges.

Berthellina edwardsii is a species of large nocturnal sea slug that feeds mostly on sponges and tunicates.

Related Families

Pleurobranchaeidae 4 species

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