This species has been observed on Mayotte and Madagascar Islands
Order : Polycladida
Suborder : Cotylea
Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea
Family : Pseudocerotidae
Distribution : Indo West Pacific
Maximal size : 45 mm
Abundance :
Species characteristics :
Background colour burgundy with golden yellow spots in the middle and turquoise, green or yellow elongate spots at the margin
Presence of an narrow orange median line in our specimens |
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Photo Cédric Péneau
Mayotte, "le vivier", Passe en S, 4 March 2007
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Remarks :
In our specimens like other from Tanzania or Indonesia we can observed an narrow orange median line on the body. This line wasn't described in Newman's publication...
Bibliographic data :
Animals more active at night
Pseudotentacles simple folds
Habitat :
Found on the reef slope to 20 m
Ethymology : after Mrs Linda Newman
References :
Discover life : Pseudoceros lindae
Marine flatworms of the world : Pseudoceros lindae
Nudipixel : Pseudoceros lindae
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 lindae :
Yvon Gildas Mayotte, 16 January 2010
In our specimens like other from Tanzania or Indonesia we can observed an narrow orange median line (a) on the body. This line wasn't described in Newman's publication... |
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Hugues Flodrops
Madagascar, Nosy Iranja, 20 m, 21 October 2010, size : 35 mm
In our specimens like other from Tanzania or Indonesia we can observed an narrow orange median line (a) on the body. This line wasn't described in Newman's publication... |
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