Sapphire
flatworm
Pseudoceros caeruleocinctus
Family
Pseudocerotidae
updated Feb 2020
Where
seen? This beautiful worm is rarely seen.
Features: About 4cm long. Body
black to reddish brown, margin bright blue, the outer margin comprising black with a very fine white outermost margin. Underside uniformly black with a fine white
margin. The body is usually not highly ruffled. It has a pair of
pseudotentacles that are simple and made up of folded edges of the body. |
Tuas, Apr 05 |
Pseudotentacles made up of folded
edges of body margin. |
Lazarus, Mar 20
Photo shared by VIncent Choo on facebook.
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Sapphire
flatworms on Singapore shores |
Acknowledgement
Grateful thanks to Rene Ong for sharing details and identifying the flatworms on this page.
Links
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. Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific with twelve
new species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 1998 Pp. 293-323.
- Newman, Leslie
and Lester Cannon. 2003. Marine
Flatworms: The World of Polyclads.
CSIRO Publishing. 97pp.
- Humann, Paul
and Ned Deloach. 2010. Reef
Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications.
497pp.
- Kuiter, Rudie
H and Helmut Debelius. 2009. World
Atlas of Marine Fauna. IKAN-Unterwasserachiv. 723pp.
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