Acotylean J
photos: Damaris Torres-Pulliza. Oahu.

Damaris Torres-Pulliza found this small worm off O'ahu in November 2021. She posted photos of it on iNaturalist.. Cory Pittman commented: "It's a flatworm and, from the presence of dorsal tentacles, it's an Acotylean. The tentacles are too far apart, proportionately, for Paraplanocera. And, it has a single very large patch of eye spots between them. The random brown blotches that coalesce into a somewhat irregular submarginal band eliminate most illustrated species....the closest match on Leslie's CD is "unidentified Acotylean 13." And, that's not close enough... So, I'd just go with "unidentified Acotylean." Of course, it looks small so there's some chance that it might come to resemble something known with growth...."

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