Sapphire flatworms (Pseudoeros sapphirinus) on the Shores of Singapore

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Sapphire flatworm
Pseudoceros sapphirinus
Family Pseudocerotidae
updated Oct 10

Where seen? This beautiful worm was seen once, at Tuas.

Features: About 4cm long. Body black, edges bright blue and with a black outer border, and is usually slightly ruffled. It has a pair of erect pseudotentacles at the front made up of folded edges of the body.

Tuas, Apr 05

Pseudotentacles made up of folded
edges of body margin.

References

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific with twelve new species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Pp. 293-323. [pdf, 2178kb] in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology vol 46.
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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