Melibe viridis

Melibe viridis

''Melibe viridis'' is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tethydidae.
Melibe viridis This Melibe viridis Nudibranch is rather big in size, nearly 30 cm when stretch out. Usually seen during night time, this was a surprise find during day time and there were 2 of them fairly close to each other. Cebu,Malapascua,Melibe viridis,Nudibracnh,Philippines

Appearance

The body reaches a length of 140 mm.
Melibe Nudibranch This is a fairly large size Nudibranch, around 30cm in size. Mostly brownish and translucent in colour. The genus of this Nudibranch, Melibe has a very interesting feeding habit, it has the oral hood which it can expand to envelope its food, mostly small crustaceans from the sandy surface. They are usually seen at night time and probably dig themselves into the sandy bottom to hide during day time. Geotagged,Melibe viridis,Philippines,Spring,nudibranch,scubadiving,underwater

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, off Mozambique and off Indonesia.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderNudibranchia
FamilyTethydidae
GenusMelibe
SpeciesM. viridis
Photographed in
Indonesia
Philippines