Damawan
flatworm
Pseudobiceros damawan
Family
Pseudocerotidae
updated
Feb 2020
Where
seen? Sometimes seen on remote reefs and also seen by divers
on our reefs.
Features: 8-10cm long. Body mottled
grey and white background with tiny black spots. Thin black margin
and wider orange margin crossed with white bars. The middle of the
body usually raised with a light white stripe along the length. The
underside white with a wide orange and thin black margin. It has a
pair of pseudotentacles that are squarish and ruffled on the sides. |
Sisters Island, Jan 10
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his
flickr.
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Pseudotentacles squarish, ruffled on the sided.
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Underside white with broad orange
and thin black margin.
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Kusu Island, Feb 14
Photo shared by Heng Pei Yan on her blog. |
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Acknowledgements
Grateful thanks to Rene Ong for sharing details and identifying the flatworms on this page.
Links
- Pseudobiceros
damawan on Encyclopedia of Life, LifeDesks, Marine Flatworms
- Polycladida: Technical fact sheet.
References
- Rene S.L. Ong and Samantha J.W. Tong. 29 October 2018. A preliminary checklist and photographic catalogue of polyclad flatworms recorded from Singapore. Nature in Singapore 2018 11: 77–125
- D. M. Bolaños, B. Q. Gan & R. S. L. Ong. 29 Jun 2016. First records of pseudocerotid flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Cotylea) from Singapore: A taxonomic report with remarks on colour variation.(pdf) The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 34: 130-169 Pp. 130-169.
- Newman, L.J.
& Cannon, L.R.G. Nine new species of Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes:
Polycladida) from Indo-Pacific. Pp. 341-368. in the Raffles
Bulletin of Zoology vol 45.
- Newman, Leslie
and Lester Cannon. 2003. Marine
Flatworms: The World of Polyclads.
CSIRO Publishing. 97pp.
- Kuiter, Rudie
H and Helmut Debelius. 2009. World
Atlas of Marine Fauna. IKAN-Unterwasserachiv. 723pp.
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