''Phyllidiopsis krempfi'' is a

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, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less

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in the family

Phyllidiidae Phyllidiidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Phyllidioidea. This family is within the clade Doridacea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Distributi ...

.Bouchet, P. (2015)
''Phyllidiopsis krempfi'' Pruvot-Fol, 1957.
In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-13. This species was named to honour Armand Krempf, a French marine biologist and director of the Nha Trang Institute of Oceanography (Vietnam) from 1921.

Distribution

This species was described from Nha-Trang,

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.Rudman, W.B., 1998 (December 12
''Phyllidiopsis krempfi'' Pruvot-Fol, 1957.
n/nowiki> Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

Description

This nudibranch has a white or pink dorsum with compound tubercles with white apices. It is a large Phyllidiid, growing to at least 60 mm in length. It is similar to ''

Phyllidiopsis pipeki ''Phyllidiopsis pipeki'' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.Bouchet, P. (2015)''Phyllidiopsis pipeki'' Brunckhorst, 1993.In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World ...

'' but that species has only two longitudinal black lines on the back.

Diet

This species feeds on a sponge.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14094832 Phyllidiidae Gastropods described in 1957 Taxa named by Alice Pruvot-Fol