Palio nothus

Palio nothus is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.^[3]

Palio nothus
Palio nothus, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Polyceridae
Genus:	Palio
Species:	P. nothus
Binomial name
Palio nothus (Johnston, 1838)[1][2]
Synonyms
Triopa nothus Johnston, 1838 Polycera ocellata Alder & Hancock, 1842

Distribution

This species was described from Prestonpans Bay, Firth of Forth, Scotland. It has subsequently been reported from the United Kingdom north to Scandinavia, Russia and Greenland. It has also been reported from the Pacific coast of Canada.^[4]

Ecology

Palio nothus and its eggs found under a rock in a tide pool in Brittany, France.

In the north-east Atlantic Palio nothus feeds on bryozoans of the genus Bowerbankia.^[5] Its eggs are laid in a short ribbon-like spiral.