Phyllidia elegans can be recognized according to following characteristics
:
- the mantle is greyish white with pinkish white tubercles and with longitudinal
and transverse black lines
- the pinkish tubercles are unequally sized : the
largest ones are compound and they consist in an aggregate of tubercles
- some tubercles are tipped with yellow
- the rhinophores are yellow
- the foot is grey with black lines on its sides ; the sole has a median black
line
Phyllidia elegans is
similar to Phyllidia alyta
and Phyllidia varicosa.
They can be distinguished
by the shape of their tubercles :
- P. alyta and P. varicosa has simple and uniform in size tubercles
- P. elegans has unequally sized tubercles and the largest ones are
compound (because they consist in an aggregate of tubercles)
