Pericelis sp 3
I found this under a slab at "Richardson's" in Hilo, Hawaii, at a depth of about 50 ft. on Sept. 11, 2011. It closely matches "Pericelis sp. 3" in Newman and Cannon's flatworm CD. The species' distribution is given as Australia, Guam, Japan, and the Marshall Islands and it is reported as "rare" in all those places. As no one seems to have recorded it before from Hawaii, we can regard it as rare here as well. Newman and Cannon give the following color description:

"Background body colour cream to light brown with light cream spots forming a reticulate pattern. Margin with smaller spots."

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