Orange-white black flatworms on the Shores of Singapore

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Orange-white black flatworm
Pseudobiceros sp. 2*
Family Pseudocerotidae
updated Jan 10

Where seen? Sometimes seen on remote reefs.

Features: 5-8cm long. Body with broad white and orange margins. Two flatworms that look similar in Newman and Cannon's book are labelled as Pseudobiceros sp. 1 and Pseudoceros sp. 1.

Pulau Biola, Dec 09
Photo shared by Loh Kok Sheng on his flickr.

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

*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.

References

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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