Version française...

This species has been observed on Mayotte and Madagascar Islands

Order : Polycladida Suborder : Cotylea Superfamily : Euryleptoidea Family : Euryleptidae Distribution : West Pacific and Mayotte. Maximal size : 45 mm Abundance : Species characteristics : Background body colour cream-white to grey-green with numerous fine tansverse lines radiating out from around the medial area, some lines form dark blotches medially Medially area with faint orange spots Margin with smaller broken lines
	Showing species characteristics...	Photo Yvon Gildas Mayotte, 23 August 2008

Bibliographic data :

The marginal tentacles are long and held erect, but are not pointed
   Ventral surface with the same pattern without orange spots.
   Habitat : Found under rubble on the reef crest
   Ethymology : eschara = scar for the pattern of lines and blotches
   This species is similar to Maritigrella virgulata but there are some differences.
            - M. eschara has fine tansverse lines rather than tranverse unequal stripes in M. virgulata.
            - Margin with smaller broken lines in M. eschara and with black stripes that may branche at the rim in M. virgulata

References :

Discover life : Maritigrella eschara
   Nudipixel : Maritigrella eschara

Publications :

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2000). A new genus of euryleptid flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Euryleptidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Natural History 34: 191–205
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112 p

Other photos of Maritigrella eschara :

Yvon Gildas Mayotte, 31 October 2009 The marginal tentacles (a) are long and held erect, but are not pointed

Alain-Benoît Rassat Madagascar, Nosy bé, Rascre, 18 m, 24 May 2013, size : 30 mm Medially area with faint orange spots Margin with smaller broken lines