Phestilla poritophages

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon= Phestilla poritophages

| authority = (Rudman 1979)Rudman, W. B. (1979). The ecology and anatomy of a new species of Aeolid Opisthobranch Mollusc; a predator of the Scleractinian coral Porites. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 65: 339-350 with 6 figures.

| synonyms = Cuthona poritophages Rudman, 1979

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Phestilla poritophages is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trinchesiidae.Picton, B. (2017). [http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037028 Phestilla poritophages (Rudman, 1979).] In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed on 2017-11-09. The species was named after its prey genus, the hard coral Porites.{{cite journal |last1=Rudman |first1=W.B. |title=Further studies on the anatomy and ecology of opisthobranch molluscs feeding on the scleractinian coral Porites |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=April 1981 |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=373–412 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1981.tb01136.x}}