Taringa halgerda
Introduction '''''Taringa halgerda''''' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.There is no real certainty that this species is placed in the correct genus.
Distribution This species was described from Balayan Bay, Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines. It is found in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean, especially around Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.left
Description ''Taringa halgerda'' is white with very distinct yellow tubercles covering the mantle. The gills of this nudibranch are white, faintly outlined in black, and the rhinophores are black. This species can reach a length of at least 40 mm.This species can be confused with ''Taringa luteola'' but there are differences in the coloration, tubercles and in some aspects of the internal anatomy.
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