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{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = B156796.jpg
| image_caption = The nudibranch ''Phyllidia haegeli'', [[Padangbai|Padangbai, Bali]].
| taxon = Phyllidia haegeli
| authority = (Fahrner & Beck, 2000)<ref name=FB>Fahrner A. & Beck L.A. 2000. ''Identification key to the Indo-Pacific species of the nudibranch family Phyllidiidae Rafinesque, 1814, including the description of two new species.'' Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 128(1-2): 189-211</ref>
| synonyms =
* Fryeria haegeli <small>Fahrner & Beck, 2000</small>
}}
'''''Phyllidia haegeli''''' is a [[species]] of [[sea slug]], a dorid [[nudibranch]], a shell-less [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the family [[Phyllidiidae]].<ref>Bouchet, P. (2015). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536580 ''Phyllidia haegeli'' (Fahrner & Beck, 2000).] In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-03.</ref>
== Distribution ==
This species was described from Trawangan slope reef, [[Gili Trawangan]], [[Lombok]], [[Indonesia]]. It also occurs in [[Bali]] and [[Anilao, Mabini, Batangas|Anilao]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref>Siers, S. (2009). [http://www.nudipixel.net/photo/00022252/ ''Phyllidia haegeli''] (as ''Phyllidia varicosa''), Nudipixel, accessed 2016-11-18</ref>
==Description==
This nudibranch has a blue background to the dorsum, becoming darker at the margin. It has a pattern of four longitudinal black lines on the dorsum separating three ridges with tall yellow-capped tubercles surrounded by pale blue. At the edge of the mantle there are vertical lines of smaller tubercles with darker centres with broken black lines between them. The rhinophores are yellow.<ref name=FB/> It is similar in appearance to ''[[Phyllidia coelestis]]'', ''[[Phyllidia varicosa]]'' and ''[[Phyllidia picta]]''.
==Diet==
This species feeds on a sponge.
==References==
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[[Category:Phyllidiidae]]
[[Category:Gastropods described in 2000]]