Rostanga pulchra | |
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A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, head end towards the right | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
Family: | Discodorididae |
Genus: | Rostanga |
Species: | R. pulchra |
Binomial name | |
Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905 |
Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.
Size up to 30 mm in length.
Found intertidally under boulders and in shallow water, normally feeding on the sponge Ophlitaspongia pennata.