Acotylean I
photos: Cory Pittman, Maalaea Bay intertidal. 7 mm.

Cory Pittman found this worm in a patch of the endemic mussel Brachidontes crebristriatus, with which it may be associated. It does not match any of the animals pictured in Newman and Cannon. The body is brownish-white with white reticulations and small spots of a brighter white that become more distinct at the margin. There is a patch of somewhat sparsely distributed eyespots between the two head tentacles, narrower posteriorily and widening anteriorily to the width of the tentacles.

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