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Cyerce elegans Butterfly Cyerce Nudibranch, Elegant Cyerce

Cyerce elegans is commonly referred to as Butterfly Cyerce Nudibranch, Elegant Cyerce. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater

Cyerce elegans, 55mm, Kwajalein


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lexID:
6647 
AphiaID:
494512 
Scientific:
Cyerce elegans 
German:
Elegante Cyerce, Saftsauger 
English:
Butterfly Cyerce Nudibranch, Elegant Cyerce 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Hermaeidae (Family) > Cyerce (Genus) > elegans (Species) 
Initial determination:
Bergh, 1870 
Occurrence:
Arabian Sea, Bali, Hawaii, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Marschall Islands, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Tulamben 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
10 - 18 Meter 
Habitats:
Algae zones, Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
up to 1.57" (4 cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), Food specialist 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-06-16 15:04:52 

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Cyerce elegans Bergh, 1870

Cyerce elegans is a beautiful sea slug.The body colour is translucent cream, yellowish or brownish. The cerata are often show an iridescent internal green spot. On the body are a network of transparent lines. These species lives on Halimeda kanaloana und Halimeda idea. It feeds on this algae.

Cyerce elegans is nocturnal.

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 22.07.2024.
  3. Seaslugs of Hawaii (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Cyerce elegans, 55mm, Kwajalein
Cyerce elegans, 55mm, Kwajalein
Cyerce elegans,Tulamben Bali, 2019
Cyerce elegans

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