This species has been observed on Reunion Island
Order : Polycladida
Suborder : Cotylea
Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea
Family : Pseudocerotidae
Distribution : Indo West Pacific
Maximal size : 70 mm
Abundance :
Species characteristics :
Background body colour cream mottled with pink, orange, red and brown, usually darker medially
Margin with pink or purple spots
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Photo Philibert Bidgrain
Reunion, Etang salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 15 October 2005, size : 20-22 mm
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Remarks :
In some specimens there is a narrow yellow interrupted median stripe bordered by red-brown burgundy, in one specimen this median stripe is uniterrupted (see below Armand Daydé specimen)... a little like Pseudoceros sp6 (Newman, 2003) and P. bifurcus...
Bibliographic data :
Ventral surface pink
Pseudotentacles simple folds
Habitat :
Found under rubble on the reef crest to reef slope
Ethymology : goslineri = after Dr Terrence Gosliner
References :
Discover life : Pseudoceros goslineri
Marine flatworms of the world : Pseudoceros goslineri
Nudipixel : Pseudoceros goslineri
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. (1998). Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific with twelve new species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46: 293–323
Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112
Other photos of Pseudoceros goslineri :
Philibert Bidgrain
(a) Reunion, Etang-Salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 16 October 2005, size : 15 mm
(b) Reunion, Etang-Salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 25 October 2006, size : 13 mm
Two specimens darker medially
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Two different juvenile forms...
Christophe Cadet
Reunion, Etang-Salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 16 February 2010, size : 5 mm
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Philibert Bidgrain
Reunion, Etang-Salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 8 August 2006, size : 8 mm |
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Armand Daydé
Reunion, Arche de la pointe au sel, Saint Leu, 5m, 31 January 2010, size : 10-15 mm
Specimen with a complete median stripe, a little like Pseudoceros sp6 (Newman, 2003) or P. bifurcus...
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Philibert Bidgrain
Reunion, Etang-Salé on the rocky coast, less 1 m, 24 August 2006, size : 18-20 mm
One specimen which is not darker medially The head region showing the cerebral eyes spot (a)
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Reunion, Pseudoceros goslineri trying to take off, at Etang salé, by Christophe Cadet
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