Pseudoceros sp 6

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This species has been observed on Mayotte and Madagascar Islands


Order : Polycladida
Suborder : Cotylea
Superfamily : Pseudocerotoidea
Family : Pseudocerotidae
Distribution : Japan and Mayotte
Maximal size : 50-60 mm
Abundance :


Species characteristics :

Background body colour black with a cream and yellow irregular median band, transverse narrow cream to yellow streaks extending from the median band to the margin

Wide orange margin

 

Pseudoceros sp6
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Photo Yvon Gildas
Mayotte, on the fore reef zone, 31 m, 19 August 2009, size : 50-60 mm

Remarks :

This specimen looks like Pseudoceros sp 42 (Newman, 2003), but in Pseudoceros sp 42 the transverse streaks are large and orange, narrow and cream to yellow in our specimen.

Bibliographic data :

Pseudotentacles are simple folds.
   Ventral side is purple with the same orange margin as the back

References :

Marine flatworms of the world : Pseudoceros sp

Publications :

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112 p

Other photos of Pseudoceros sp 6:


 

Yvon Gildas

Mayotte, on the fore reef zone, 31 m, 19 August 2009, size : 50-60 mm

 

The same specimen crawling on the sustrate...

Ventral side is purple with the same orange border (a) as the back

 


Alain-Benoît Rassat

Madagascar, Nosy Bé, Plateau des arches, 16m, 7 May 2012, size : 30 mm

 


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