Selection: Phyllidia picta

Phyllidia picta Pruvot-Fol, 1957

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Phyllidia picta can be distinguished from its congeners by the broad blue bases to its isolated, large gold capped tubercles.
Originally posted at these websites as Fryeria menindie Brunckhorst, 1993 which was shown by Yonow, 1996 to be a junior synonym of
Phyllidia picta Pruvot-Fol, 1957, which Yonow showed was in fact a species of Fryeria.
according to
Valdés, A. & Gosliner, T. M. (1999). Phylogeny systematic of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with the description of a new genus and a new family. Zoologica Scripta, 28: 315 - 360
is the genus Fryeria "simply a sub group of Phyllidia".
More informations on Phyllidia picta are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum!