Pseudoceros paralaticlavus Newman & Cannon 1994

This relatively common flatworm is black with a wide creamy white median stripe and a white marginal band with a yellow rim.
Apparently, some have considered thisspecies another color form of P. jebborum, but a 1996 paper by Coggin and Newman showed a definite difference in the DNA of the two.

In April 2010 I photographed what appears to be a color variant of this species which had entirely black pseudotentacles (bottom photo: Kapalua Bay, Maui, 15 ft. depth)

 

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Scott Johnson


color variant?