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worms > Phylum Platyhelminthes >
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Turbellaria > Order Polycladida
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| Starry
flatworm Pseudobiceros stellae Family Pseudocerotidae updated Aug 10 Where seen? This moderately large flatworm with spots is only sometimes seen, usually in numbers, and then not again for some time. Near living reefs on some of our Southern shores. Features: 4-8cm long. Body is brownish with small white spots all over. There is a broad dark band along the centre that is raised, with a line of crowded white spots along this centre band, and along the body edges. The underside is pale with a black margin. It has a pair of erect pseudotentacles at the front made up of folded edges of the body. |
 Kusu Island, Mar 06 |
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 Pale underside. |
 White-tipped pseudotentacles. |
Starry flatworms on Singapore shores
 Pulau Semakau, Dec 08 |
 White underside with black margin. |
 Cyrene Reef, Aug 08  |
 Kusu Island, Sep 09  |
 Kusu Island, Sep 09  |
more photos of starry flatworms on Singapore shores
References
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CSIRO Publishing. 97pp.|
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