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Updated 9/25/2023

Family Phyllidiidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Phyllidiella pustulosa

Firehouse, Oahu, 30 feet

 

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 60 feet

 

Sea Tiger Wreck, Oahu, 85 feet

 

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 45 feet

Ulithi, Yap, 5 feet

 

Raja Ampat, Indonesia, 4 feet

Palau, 3 feet

 

Kaiaka Wall, Oahu, 60 feet


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 20 feet


Kahe Point, Oahu, 20 feet
   
   

PUSTULOSE NUDIBRANCH

Very common on reefs at any depth.  Variable, pink pustules quite smooth, may appear green or gray at depth, mantle edge plain.  Similar to the rare Phyllidiopsis fissuratus.  Attains 3 inches.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.