Damawan flatworms (Pseudobiceros damawan) on the Shores of Singapore

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Damawan flatworm
Pseudobiceros damawan
Family Pseudocerotidae
updated Jan 10

Where seen? Sometimes seen on remote reefs and also seen by divers on our reefs.

Features: 8-10cm long. Body with thin black margin and wider orange margin crossed with white bars and tiny black spots. The underside with white with an orange margin. It has a pair of erect pseudotentacles on the front of the worm made up of folded edges of the body.

Sisters Island, Jan 10
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his flickr.

Sisters Island, Jan 10
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his flickr.

References

Newman, Leslie and Lester Cannon. 2003. Marine Flatworms: The World of Polyclads. CSIRO Publishing. 97pp.
Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. Nine new species of Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from Indo-Pacific. Pp. 341-368. [pdf, 1530kb] in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology vol 45.
Kuiter, Rudie H and Helmut Debelius. 2009. World Atlas of Marine Fauna . IKAN-Unterwasserachiv. 723pp.

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