Elegant Phyllidia
Amazing fact
The elegant phyllidia has black lines along the middle of its underside and on its sides.
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The elegant phyllidia has black lines along the middle of its underside and on its sides.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Elegant Phyllidia
- Scientific name
- Phyllidia elegans
- Japanese name
- ツノキイボウミウシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Phyllidiidae
- Genus
- Phyllidia
Its feelers and the tips of the gray, wart-like bumps all over its body are yellow.
Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands and Indo-West Pacific
Where the Elegant Phyllidia has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ツノキイボウミウシ
- 简体中文
- 华美叶海蛞蝓
- 繁體中文
- 華美葉海蛞蝓
- 한국어
- 필리디아 엘레간스
- Español
- Phyllidia elegante
- Français
- Phyllidie élégante
- Italiano
- Fillidia elegante
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ツノキイボウミウシChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Phyllidia elegansChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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