Phylliroe bucephala is a parasitic species of pelagic nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phylliroidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Phylliroidae |
| Genus: | Phylliroe |
| Species: | P. bucephala
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| Phylliroe bucephala Lamarck, 1816
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Biology
editThis species of nudibranch is transparent with its guts visible through the laterally flattened body. It has a tail and two long smooth rhinophores. It feeds on jellyfish and plankton as an adult. The juveniles parasitize Zanclea medusae.[1]
References
edit- ^ Gosliner TM, Valdes A Behrens DW 2015 Nudibranch and Sea Slug Identification Indo-Pacific New World Publications Jacksonville Florida USA
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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