Kabeiro phasmida

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

{{Taxobox

| image = B157870-1.jpg

| image_caption = The nudibranch Kabeiro phasmida, Bontoh, Pulau Sangeang, Indonesia.

| status =

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura

clade Nudipleura

clade Nudibranchia

clade Dexiarchia

clade Cladobranchia

clade Dendronotida

| superfamilia = Tritonioidea

| familia = Dotidae

| genus = Kabeiro

| species = K. phasmida

| binomial = Kabeiro phasmida

| binomial_authority = Shipman & Gosliner, 2015{{cite journal | last1 = Shipman | first1 = C. | last2 = Gosliner | first2 = T. | year = 2015 | title = Molecular and morphological systematics of Doto Oken, 1851 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia), with descriptions of five new species and a new genus | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3973 | page = 1 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.2 | pmid = 26249713 }}

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Kabeiro phasmida is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=850136 Kabeiro phasmida Shipman & Gosliner, 2015.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-06-25

Distribution

This species was described from Mainit Point, Calumpan Peninsula, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines. It has been photographed in Indonesia.

Description

The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is light brown. The cerata are irregular in shape and there are raised tubercles on the sides of the body. The maximum length of this species is 20 mm.

Ecology

Kabeiro phasmida is found on colonies of a pinnate hydroid.

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