Robin Gwen Agarwal, USA
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Polycerella glandulosa Behrens & Gosliner, 1988
The body is dirty white to cream in color. The notum is covered with yellow-white and dark brown spots and bears numerous cylindrical papillae. There are two distinctive extra-branchial appendages located posterior to the gill. These are branched and the upper branch is swollen, yellowish and glandular.
The function of the unusually swollen glands that give the small slug its name, is not known.
Polycerella glandulosa feeds on the bryozoans of the genera, Zoobotryon, Bugula, Amanthia and Crisularia.
There is a possibility of confusion with Palio dubia, which, however, has 3-6 unbranched extra-branchial appendages near the gill.
The body is dirty white to cream in color. The notum is covered with yellow-white and dark brown spots and bears numerous cylindrical papillae. There are two distinctive extra-branchial appendages located posterior to the gill. These are branched and the upper branch is swollen, yellowish and glandular.
The function of the unusually swollen glands that give the small slug its name, is not known.
Polycerella glandulosa feeds on the bryozoans of the genera, Zoobotryon, Bugula, Amanthia and Crisularia.
There is a possibility of confusion with Palio dubia, which, however, has 3-6 unbranched extra-branchial appendages near the gill.
