Order : Polycladida
Suborder : Cotylea
Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea
Family : Pseudocerotidae
Distribution : Indo West Pacific
Maximal size : 20 mm
Abundance :

Species characteristics :

Background color variable, velvety bright red or red-orange, fushia-pink at margin with irregular white spots or clusters of dots over the entire surface

The white spots are more concentrated in a line along the margin and sometimes in irregular clusters longitudinally and medially

Bibliographic data :

Ventral surface light red
    Body oval with a few marginal ruffles
    Pseudotentacles small bumps.
    Feeding on colonial ascidians
   Habitat : Found at the reef crest under rubble
   Ethymology : rubro = red, nanus = dwarf, for its small size and colour
   Similar to Pseudoceros sp7 but Pseudoceros sp7 have a median irregular white area.

Cerebral eyespot (a) in round clear area with about 6-30 eyes in one row in round clear area     This species looks like Pseudoceros irretitus but in P. irretitus the background body colour is dark pink-red with a reticulate pattern of fine white lines.

Eva Fontaine

Mayotte, mtsanga Mboueanatsa, less 1 m, 11 Jully 2010, size : 10-15 mm

Eva Fontaine

Mayotte, "Gombé Ndroumé" less 1 m, 21 December 2011, size : 6-8 mm

Cerebral eyespot in round clear area with about 6-30 eyes in one row in round clear area