32 photos - 17 species
Phyllidia alyta Yonow, 1996
Warty sea slug
Maximum length: 50 mm
Gray-white body with white tubercles, yellow tips
and four straight black lines running across the “back”.
Photo 1 Astrid: Moalboal Philippines
Phyllidia coelestis Bergh, 1905
Sky blue phyllidia
Maximum length: 50 mm
Body white to gray, with black lines and pustules between the tubercles,
which are the same color as the body, with some having yellow tips.
The mantle margin may be yellow.
The rhinophores are white with yellow.
Photo 1 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Photo 2 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidia elegans Bergh, 1869
Elegant phyllidia
Maximum length: 80 mm
Gray to pinkish-grey body with thin black lines running between the tubercles.
The tubercles themselves are white, some to many have yellow tips.
The rhinophores are yellow on white stalks.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Phyllidia exquisita Brunckhorst, 1993
Warty sea slug
Maximum length: 23 mm
Bluish appearance.
Widely spaced arrangement of opaque dots and wavy black swirls on the sides.
Yellow stripe on the mantle edge.
Photo 1 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Phyllidia multifaria Yonow, 1986
Warty slug
Maximum length: 50 mm
Pinkish white with large tubercles surrounded by black,
few tubercles have yellow tips, black lines extend to the edge of the mantle.
Their rhinophores are yellow.
Photo 1 Astrid: Hurghada Egypt
Phyllidia ocellata Cuvier, 1804
Ocellated phyllidia
Maximum length: 70 mm
This species is extremely variable,
the body can be intensely yellow with white or gray tubercles.
Some large black rings on sides, or black in large parts of the mantle,
yellow tubercles and black markings below, usually emphasized by a white margin,
or sometimes only black or yellow with yellow or white tubercles.
Their rhinophores are always yellow to orange.
Photo 1 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Photos 2 - 3 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidia picta Pruvot-Fol, 1957
Black-rayed phyllidia or Painted phyllidia
Maximum length: 60 mm
The mantle is mostly black and surrounds each individual wart, which have yellow caps.
The rhinophores are yellow.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidia rueppelii Bergh, 1869
Ruppel's warty slug
Maximum length: 40 mm
Also easy to identify as it usually does not have as many orange tubercles
and the lighter bases are less likely to merge into bands.
Feeds on sponges.
Photo 1 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Photo 2 Johnny: Hurghada Egypt
Photo 3 Astrid: Hurghada Egypt
Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck, 1801
Swollen phyllidia, Varicose wart slug or Varicose phyllidia
Maximum length: 70 mm
Yellow warts and black longitudinal stripes.
All warty snails are very good chemical defenders.
They release a stinging venom at the slightest annoyance.
There are no known predators of this species.
Photo 1 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Photo 2 Johnny: Hurghada Egypt
Photo 3 Astrid: Hurghada Egypt
Phyllidiella lizae Brunckhorst, 1993
Liz's phyllidiella
Maximum length: 40 mm
Gray body with pinkish-white tubercles with white tips
and long black lines along the sides of the mantle,
which begin before the black rhinophores.
Photo 1 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiella nigra Van Hasselt, 1824
Black phyllidiella
Maximum length: 75 mm
Black body with relatively large,
single or sparsely spaced pinkish-white tubercles distributed on the mantle.
Black rhinophores.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Bangka Island North Sulawesi
Photos 2 - 4 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiella pustulosa Cuvier, 1804
Pimpled phyllidiella or Pustulose wart slug
Maximum length: 75 mm
Flat parts between the tubercles are filled with black.
Black rhinophores.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiella striata Bergh, 1889
Striped phyllidiopsis
Maximum length: 45 mm
White to gray body with black lines.
White rhinophores.
Photo 1 Astrid: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiopsis annae Brunckhorst, 1993
Anne's phyllidiopsis
Maximum length: 25 mm
Light blue body with black stripes and black spots along the edge of the mantle.
Black rhinophores.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiopsis phiphiensis Brunckhorst, 1993
Phyllidiopsis phiphiensis
Maximum length: 30 mm
White mantle with black longitudinal lines and black spots above the mantle margin.
Yellowish rhinophores.
Photo 1 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiopsis shireenae Brunckhorst, 1989
Shireen's Phyllidiopsis
Maximum length: 100 mm
Gray to pink, or bluish blue body, with a high central crest with black lines along the flanks,
some of which cross along the back, while others extend to the edge of the mantle.
The rhinophores are pink or yellowish with dark backs.
Photos 1 - 2 Johnny: Lembeh Strait North - Sulawesi
Phyllidiopsis xishaensis ( G.-Y. Lin, 1983 )
Striped Phyllidopsis
Maximum length: 1, 2 - 2 cm
Maximum depth: 15 m
The basic color of this nudibranch is a dull light blue on a white, granulated surface.
There are black longitudinal stripes on the body.
In some specimens there are black dots on the outer part of the mantle.
Diet: Sponges.
Photo 1 Johnny: Bangka island North Sulawesi