This species has been observed on Madagascar Island
Order : Polycladida
Suborder : Cotylea
Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea
Family : Pseudocerotidae
Distribution : Indonesia, Papua new Guinea and now Madagascar
Maximal size : 70 mm
Abundance :
Species characteristics :
Background body colour cream with scattered purple spots
Each spot is denser in the middle with fine dots outwards
Ventrally cream |
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Photo Alain-Benoît Rassat
Madagascar, "les roses", Nosy bé, 23 m, 18 August 2013, size : 60 mm
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Bibliographic data :
 Pseudotentacles are formed by simple folds of the anterior margin with small scattered pseudotentacular eyes on the margin. A horseshoe shaped cerebral cluster with about 100 eyespots.
Found on the reef slope over shallow sand and under ledges
Similar to Pseudoceros indicus
Ethymology :
after its type location, Laing island, Papua new Guinea
References :
Discover life : Pseudoceros laingensis
Polycladida : Pseudoceros laingensis
Nudipixel : Pseudoceros laingensis
Publications :
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
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