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This species has been observed on Reunion and Mayotte Islands

Order : Polycladida Suborder : Cotylea Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea Family : Pseudocerotidae Distribution : Indo West Pacific Maximal size : 30 mm Abundance : Species characteristics : Body semi-transparent, mottled grey and opaque white with widely space black spots, light orange medially Marginal band orange with white spots and occasional black dots Rim narrow and black
	Showing species characteristics...	Photo Philibert Bidgrain Mayotte, Sakouli, less 1 m, 12 July 2010, size : 15 mm

Bibliographic data :

Presence of a black rim dorsally and ventrally. The ventral side is cream with a mottled orange marginal band.
   The body is raised on the longitudinal median line, and the pseudotentacles are square and ruffled, each with two well defined groups of numerous pseudotentacular eyes.
   Cerebral cluster of about 50 small eyespots
   Habitat : Found at the reef crest under rubble, feeding on colonial ascidians
   Ethymology : damawan = after the reef where it was collected Madang, Papua New Guinea

References :

Discover life : Pseudobiceros damawan
   Marine flatworms of the world : Pseudobiceros damawan
   Polycladida lifedesks : Pseudobiceros damawan
   Nudipixel : Pseudobiceros damawan

Publications :

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (1994). Biodiversity of Australian polyclad flatworms. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36: 159–163
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (1997). Nine new Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Pseudocerotidae) from the Indo-Pacific. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 45: 341–368
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112 p

Other photos of Pseudobiceros damawan :

Rozenn Gildas Mayotte, Passe en S, 35 m, 31 October 2009, size : 20 mm A pale pattern for this species. A similar pattern was described in Newman, L.J. et Cannon, L.R.G. (2003).   The pseudotentacles are square and ruffled

Matthias Deuss Mayotte, platier de Handréma, 2 m, 4 March 2010   The body is raised on the longitudinal median line

Philibert Bidgrain Mayotte, mtsanga M'titi Sada, less 1 m, 16 July 2010, size : 25 mm A dark pattern for this species. A similar pattern was described in Newman, L.J. et Cannon, L.R.G. (2003).

Philippe Bourjon Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 27 October 2010, size: 15-20 mm During the night.

Philippe Bourjon Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 15 may 2016, size: 20 mm

On the left the underside...