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This species has been observed on Reunion, Mauritius and Madagascar Islands

Order : Polycladida Suborder : Cotylea Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea Family : Pseudocerotidae Distribution : Australia and Reunion Island Maximal size : 30 mm Abundance : Species characteristics : Background body colour cream-white with four marginal bands : inner band narrow black, then orange, then narrow black with a narrow yellow rim. Sometimes with a narrow inner opaque white band. Faint narrow medial white line starting posteriorly to the cerebral eyespot ending prior to posterior margin
	Showing species characteristics...	Photo Philibert Bidgrain Reunion, Trou d'eau lagoon, less 1 m, 29 May 2010, size : 13-15 mm

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Remarks :

Our specimens present some particularities :
            - The narrow inner opaque white marginal band is often present
            - The outermost marginal band is white, not yellow...

Bibliographic data :

Ventrally cream-white or light orange with yellow rim
   Pseudotentacles simple folds
   Easely confused with : Pseudoceros cf confusus, Pseudoceros bimarginatus, Pseudoceros contrarius and Pseudoceros intermittus but there are obvious differences

	P. cf confusus	P. confusus	P. bimarginatus	P. intermittus	P. contrarius
Marginal band coloration from inside to outside	Black, orange and white or cream	(White), black, orange, black and yellow or white	White, orange, black and yellow	Orange, black and yellow	Yellow, black and orange
Median longitudinal stripe	No	White			Yellow
	No black triangle between the pseudotentacles			Black triangle with a white spot between the pseudotentacles	Black triangle between the pseudotentacles

Habitat : Found under rubble on the reef crest
   Ethymology : confusor = confusing, for its similarity to P. bimarginatus

References :

Discover life : Pseudobiceros confusus

Publications :

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (1995). Colour pattern variation in the tropical flatworm, Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 43: 435–446
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112

Other photos of Pseudoceros confusus :

Philibert Bidgrain Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 24 May 2010, size : 10-12 mm Faint narrow medial white line (b) starting posteriorly to the cerebral eyespot (a) ending prior to posterior margin

Christophe Cadet Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 19 May 2010, size : 15 mm Background body colour deep cream-white

Christophe Cadet Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 24 December 2009, size : 25 mm Background body colour with darkest tinge than usual...

Philibert Bidgrain Reunion, La Saline lagoon, less 1 m, 12 June 2010, size : 20 mm   Stopped by a sea urchin... In this specimen like other from our Island             - The narrow inner opaque white (a) marginal band is well developped             - The outermost marginal band (b) is white, not yellow...

Philibert Bidgrain Reunion, Trou d'eau lagoon, less 1 m, 29 August 2010, size : 15 mm Specimen with partialy decolorated black marginal band (a) on the pseudotentacles area.

Jean-Marie Gradot Maurice, Trou aux biches lagoon, 29 Jully 2015

Alexandre Laporte Madagascar, Antafondro Lodge, Sainte Marie, rocky coast, less 1 m, 30 August 2017, size : 25 mm

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Reunion, Pseudoceros confusus like an ostrich, at Saint Gilles, by Philibert Bidgrain

Reunion, large P. confusus with inner opaque white marginal band, at Saint Gilles, by Philibert Bidgrain