Pseudocerotid B
Top photo: Pauline Fiene, Ma`alaea Bay, Maui. 54 ft.
2nd, 3rd, 4th photos: Cory Pittman (see individual captions for details)
5th photo, Scott Johnson, Waimea Bay O`ahu. 34 mm.
bottom photo: Makua, O`ahu. 90 ft.

Body elongate oval, raised medially, wider posteriorily. Dorsal surface covered with minute papillae, reddish brown to dark olive-green with numerous small scattered whitish spots of various sizes and shapes, sometimes indistinct, but fewer on margin and on median ridge. Edge of margin largely devoid of white spots. Pseudotentacles (or tentacles?) small with whitish tips. (If true tentacles, might belong to family Euryleptidae.)

Nothing exactly like this appears on the Newman & Cannon CD. It somewhat resembles Pseudocerotid 8 on the CD but that species has a narrow black marginal rim.

Scott Johnson has photographed a similar species at Kwajalein.

BACK to mottled or speckled
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