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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