Phyllodesmium rudmani Burghardt & Gosliner, 2006 is a animal in the Myrrhinidae family, order Nudibranchia, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Phyllodesmium rudmani Burghardt & Gosliner, 2006
Phyllodesmium rudmani is a zooxanthellae-hosting nudibranch that mimics soft coral polyps, found in Indonesia and the Philippines.
This species of nudibranch, Phyllodesmium rudmani Burghardt & Gosliner, 2006, can reach a maximum length of 45 millimeters. The cerata of this slug closely mimic the closed polyps of soft corals belonging to the genus Xenia. Individuals of Phyllodesmium rudmani host endosymbiotic zooxanthellae from the genus Symbiodinium. This species is distributed in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and Luzon, the Philippines.
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