Pseudocerotid A
upper 2 photos: Dennis McCrea "Golden Arches," Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 60-65 ft. at night. Size: about 1 1/2 in. long and 1/2 in. wide.
lower photo: Pauline Fiene, Kihei, Maui. under debris in Halimeda bed. 65 ft.

Black with thin yellow marginal band. Ruffled margin. This worm resembles Pseudocerotid 4 but has much simpler pseudotentacles and a different colored marginal band. Nothing like it occurs on the Newman & Cannon CD, so it gets a letter designation instead of a number..

Debra Newbery shot some excellent VIDEO of the same worm in motion. Later, Pauline Fiene photographed another individual off Maui.

Dennis sent his photos to flatworm specialist Marion Litvaitis at the Univ. of New Hampshire, who wrote back: "It belongs to the family Pseudocerotidae (not Euryleptidae). That's about as far as it can be id'd."

BACK to solid color w marginal bands

Dennis McCrea

Pauline Fiene