''Taringa halgerda'' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less

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mollusk in the family Discodorididae. There is no real certainty that this species is placed in the correct genus.

Distribution

This species was described from Balayan Bay, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines. It is found in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean, especially around

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and the Philippines.''Taringa halgerda'' Gosliner & Behrens, 1998
Sea Slug Forum, accessed 8 December 2009.

Description

''Taringa halgerda'' is white with very distinct yellow tubercles covering the mantle. The

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of this nudibranch are white, faintly outlined in black, and the

rhinophores A rhinophore is one of a pair of chemosensory club-shaped, rod-shaped or ear-like structures which are the most prominent part of the external head anatomy in sea slugs, marine gastropod opisthobranch mollusks such as the nudibranchs, sea hare ...

are black. This species can reach a length of at least 40 mm. This species can be confused with ''

Taringa luteola ''Taringa sublutea'' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae.MolluscaBase (2018)''Taringa sublutea'' (Abraham, 1877).Accessed on 2018-11-26 Distribution This species was ...

'' but there are differences in the coloration,

tubercle In anatomy, a tubercle (literally 'small tuber', Latin for 'lump') is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal. In plants A tubercle is generally a wart-like projection ...

s and in some aspects of the internal anatomy.

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q609802 Discodorididae Gastropods described in 1998