title: Polycera melanosticta
text: # Polycera melanosticta
  
  Polycera melanosticta is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species was described from ten specimens collected from underneath a paint raft at Devonport Naval Base, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  Polycera melanosticta feeds on Bugula neritina and Bugula stolonifera.
  
  