Rostanga pulchra

Rostanga pulchra is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.^[2]

Rostanga pulchra
A live individual of Rostanga pulchra, head end towards the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Discodorididae
Genus:	Rostanga
Species:	R. pulchra
Binomial name
Rostanga pulchra MacFarland, 1905 [1]

Distribution

This is a well known species which has been reported on the Pacific Ocean coast of North, Central and South America from Point Craven, Alaska to the Gulf of California, Panama, Chile and Argentina.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]}

Description

Size up to 30 mm in length.^[2]

Habitat

Found intertidally under boulders and in shallow water, normally feeding on the sponge Ophlitaspongia pennata.^[2]