{"refrec":{"BRefID":348061,"RR":"<b>Yiu, S.K.F.; Chung, S. S.-W.; Qiu, J.-W.</b> (2021). New observations on the corallivorous nudibranch <i>Phestilla melanobrachia</i>: morphology, dietary spectrum and early development. <i>J. Moll. Stud. 87(4)</i>: eyab034. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab034\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab034</a>","BEntID":344755,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":". <i>J. Moll. Stud. 87(4)</i>: eyab034. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab034\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab034</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Yiu, S.K.F.; Chung, S. S.-W.; Qiu, J.-W.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Yiu, S.K.F.; Chung, S. S.-W.; Qiu, J.-W.","Englishabstract":"<em>Phestilla melanobrachia</em> is a coral-eating nudibranch widely distributed in the tropical Pacific. Previous studies have revealed only two colour morphs of <em>P. melanobrachia</em>, an orange form preying on various orange <em>Dendrophyllia</em> and <em>Tubastraea</em> spp. and a dark green form preying on the black <em>Tubastraea micrantha</em> and <em>Tubastraea diaphana</em>. Both colour morphs live in relatively deep waters (15–25 m) of exposed shores. We conducted morphological and molecular analysis, which revealed a beige colour morph of <em>P. melanobrachia</em> that feeds on the hermatypic scleractinian coral <em>Turbinaria peltata</em> in shallow waters (&lt;10 m). The three genera of corals all belong to the family Dendrophylliidae, but <em>Dendrophyllia</em> and <em>Tubastraea</em> are azooxanthellates whereas <em>Turbinaria</em> is zooxanthellate. Consistent with their diet, the beige colour morph has a high abundance of dinoflagellate cells in the ceratal tips, whereas the other two colour morphs contain only few or no dinoflagellate cells in their cerata. Our finding of this new colour morph extends the knowledge about the diet, ecological niche and potential ecological impact of this species of corallivorous nudibranch.","AbstractOtherLang":null,"BibLvlCode":"AS","StandardTitle":"New observations on the corallivorous nudibranch <i>Phestilla melanobrachia</i>: morphology, dietary spectrum and early development","OrigTitleLangCode":"en","OrigTitleLangCodeExtended":"eng","OrigTitleLangID":15,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2026-05-21 01:33:52.990961","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"UserAccessRight":null,"UserAccID":null,"AuthorKeywords":null,"OtherDescriptors":null,"Notes":null,"AnaPub":2021,"MonPub":null,"DateUpdate":"2021-12-13","DateCreate":"2021-12-13","SecASFANote":null,"ConfID":null,"PeerRev":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"WoScode":"WOS:000790597600003","VABBcode":null,"OpenAcc":0,"DOI":"10.1093/mollus/eyab034"},"refs":null,"anarec":{"AnaID":348061,"PubliDate":2021,"Pagination":"eyab034","XtraPublOfAnaID":null,"ISBN":null,"Volume":"87","Issue":"4","BRefMon":null,"BRefMonRR":null,"BRefXtra":null,"BRefXtraRR":null,"SerBRefID":43084,"SerRR":"Journal of Molluscan Studies. Oxford University Press: Reading.  ISSN 0260-1230; e-ISSN 1464-3766","StandardTitleSer":"Journal of Molluscan Studies","ISSN":"0260-1230","AbbrevSer":"J. Moll. Stud.","StandardTitleMon":null,"StartPage":null,"Pages":null,"ToPubliDate":null,"BRefBibLvlCode":"S","SerNotes":null},"monrec":null,"serrec":null,"relations":null,"relationsRev":null,"addrec":null,"othpubs":null,"ownerships":null,"authors":[{"AutName":"Yiu","Firstname":"Sam","Initials":"S.K.F.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":344755,"AutID":433348,"OrderNr":1,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Chung","Firstname":"Sheena","Initials":"S. S.-W.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":344755,"AutID":389737,"OrderNr":2,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Qiu","Firstname":"Jian-Wen","Initials":"J.-W.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":344755,"AutID":65809,"OrderNr":3,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null}],"mapdetails":null,"datasets":null,"monographs":null,"monparts":null,"serparts":null,"BEntOpen":null,"BEntPrivate":null,"availability":null,"litstyles":null,"thespers":null,"arch2discl":null,"SERpubls":[{"PublName":"Oxford University Press","City":"Reading"}],"MONpubls":null,"pictures":[],"thestermsPath":null,"thestermsASFA":null,"taxtermsASFA":[{"TaxTerm":"Phestilla melanobrachia"}],"geotermsASFA":null,"collections":[{"Collection":"VLIZ Acknowledged Publications","ShortName":"VLIZ ackn"}],"conf":null,"proj":null,"Physdatasets":null,"spcols":{"941":{"SpName":"LifeWatch Species Information Backbone","SpColID":941,"ParSpColID":39,"TopParID":39,"ShortName":"LifeWatch Species Information Backbone","URLLocation":null,"LibID":36,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":39,"SpColPath":"VLIZ ackn/LifeWatch Species Information Backbone"},"39":{"SpName":"VLIZ Acknowledged Publications","SpColID":39,"ParSpColID":null,"TopParID":null,"ShortName":"VLIZ ackn","URLLocation":null,"LibID":36,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":null,"SpColPath":"VLIZ ackn"},"507":{"SpName":"World Register of Marine Species","SpColID":507,"ParSpColID":null,"TopParID":null,"ShortName":"WoRMS website","URLLocation":null,"LibID":null,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":null,"SpColPath":"WoRMS website"},"915":{"SpName":"World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) acknowledged","SpColID":915,"ParSpColID":941,"TopParID":39,"ShortName":"WoRMS ackn","URLLocation":null,"LibID":36,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":39,"SpColPath":"VLIZ ackn/LifeWatch Species Information Backbone/WoRMS ackn"},"947":{"SpName":"WoRMS ackn - direct reference","SpColID":947,"ParSpColID":915,"TopParID":39,"ShortName":"WoRMS ackn - direct","URLLocation":null,"LibID":36,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":39,"SpColPath":"VLIZ ackn/LifeWatch Species Information Backbone/WoRMS ackn/WoRMS ackn - direct"}},"doi":null,"publs":null,"serparttypes":null,"monauthors":null,"MParts":null,"SParts":null,"hLibs":null,"langs":[{"BEntID":344755,"AbstractFlag":0,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"},{"BEntID":344755,"AbstractFlag":1,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"}],"urls":[{"URL":"https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab034","externalID":"10.1093/mollus/eyab034","URLTypeCode":"DOI","URLID":98384,"URLTypID":13,"URLType":"DOI","URLPrefix":"http://dx.doi.org/"}],"thesterms":null,"taxterms":[{"TaxTerm":"Phestilla melanobrachia","AphiaID":536543,"TaxtID":49527}],"geoterms":null,"othterms":null,"asfacodes":null,"asfa2codes":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"taxtermsFRIS":[{"TaxTerm":"Phestilla melanobrachia","DutchTerm":null,"AphiaID":536543,"TaxtID":49527}],"geotermsFRIS":null,"othtermsFRIS":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1,"sessions":{"newSesName":"Bouchti, Zohra, Z.","newSesDate":{"date":"2021-12-13 08:21:19.303000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"},"updSesName":"Bouchti, Zohra, Z.","updSesDate":{"date":"2021-12-13 08:21:19.303000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"}}}