Pseudoceros cruentus Newman & Cannon 1998
photos: Rebecca Bicker, Kealia, Maui. 20 ft. on sand. Size: about 20 mm.

A good match for Pseudoceros cruentus on the Newman & Cannon CD.

Color description from CD reads: "Background colour mottled deep red with raised cream microdots giving the surface an uneven pattern and texture. Pseudotentacles extremely small and close together.... These flatworms lay bright red egg masses on their ascidian prey and extrude red mucus if disturbed."

P. cruentus is known from South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Japan, and now Hawai`i.

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