Pseudocerotid F
photo: Rebecca Bicker, 16 ft. Ma'alaea Bay, Maui, at night.

Rebecca Bicker found this worm on a night dive in July 2022. It resembles Pseudoceros E but Cory Pittman notes significant differences:

"E has very small, evenly-spaced white dots that correspond to small papillae/pustules.... The white markings in the new one are larger and more diffuse with no sign of papillae/pustules. The background in E is finely reticulated. The background in the new one is uniform. In E, the fine yellow-green line is marginal and nearly continuous. In the new one, it's submarginal and regularly overridden by the lateral white streaks. E has a broad orange submarginal band. The new one doesn't. E has a white mark between the pseudotentacles. The new one probably doesn't (the character is a bit difficult to see...)."

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