Lemon pleurobranch

Lemon pleurobranch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Pleurobranchida
Family:	Pleurobranchidae
Genus:	Berthellina
Species:	B. granulata
Binomial name
Berthellina granulata (Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurobranchus granulatus Krauss, 1848 Berthella granulata (Krauss, 1848) Oscaniella granulata (Krauss, 1848)

The lemon pleurobranch (Berthellina granulata) is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchidae.

The lemon pleurobranch is a small smooth oval pleurobranch. The animal is yellow- to orange-coloured and often has white spots. There are two rolled rhinophores joined at their bases on the head. Like all other sidegill slugs, there is a single gill on the right hand side of the body.

The animal grows up to 40 mm in total length.^[2]

This animal has been found off the whole southern African coast and is known throughout the Indo-Pacific to Hawaii.^[2]

The species is thought to be a scavenger. Its egg mass is an upright orange collar of one whorl.

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