Feline
flatworm
Pseudocerotid 8
Family
Pseudocerotidae
updated May 2020
Where
seen? Seen once on a remote reef. Although it looks like Pseudoceros felis, its identity is still awaiting confirmation.
Features: 8-10cm long. Body mottled
cream or yellow with dark tiny blotches on a grey background. Edges
with black irregular bars. Narrow orange with thin black margin. Underside
uniformly grey with narrow orange and thin black margin. It
has a pair of pseudotentacles at the front made up of folded edges
of the body.
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Pulau Sudong, Dec 09
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Pulau Sudong, Dec 09
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his
flickr.
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Links
- Pseudoceros
felis on Encyclopedia of Life, LifeDesks, Marine Flatworms
- Polycladida: Technical fact sheet.
References
- Newman, Leslie
and Lester Cannon. 2003. Marine
Flatworms: The World of Polyclads.
CSIRO Publishing. 97pp.
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