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Rostanga crawfordi
Rostanga crawfordi is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. Originally described as Discodoris crawfordi, it was redescribed by Rudman & Avern as Rostanga australis. The two names were synonymised by Dayrat. It was named after Tom Crawford, an Australian malacologist who compiled an extensive collection of Opisthobranchia prior to his death in 1966 at the age of 22.
From the article Rostanga crawfordi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This dorid nudibranch is pale orange-yellow to orange-pink in colour; the dorsum is covered with caryophyllidia.
Range & habitat
This species was described from Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. It is known only from Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Rostanga crawfordi is found on the red sponge, Psammoclema, on which it presumably feeds. This sponge genus is currently classified in the family Chondropsidae. Most other species of Rostanga feed on sponges of the family Microcionidae.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 559460.