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Pseudoceros ferrugineus
Mottled purple flat worm 3-4 cm long with crimson and gold margin.
Near shore tropical waters coral reef ecosystem.
Spotted offshore of Leeward Oahu. Day and Month notional; the year is known with certainty. Original medium photoprint; photo taken with Nikonos III using close-up kit and flash; photo subsequently scanned and image saved as digital file.
Point taken. I'm not sure how this spotting would fall under reef monitoring, except in a very broad sense, broader than I would define "monitoring," but you are correct; it is misplaced amongst the nudibranch spottings. For now, it's under no mission.
Hi Allen, great flatworm snap. I know people closely associate flatworms and opisthobranchs, but they are different Phyla - perhaps the flatworm would be better placed in the Global Coral Reef Monitoring mission :]
Thanks Aldrin. I agree with your ID, and with the fact that the spotting is not a nudibranch.
Spotted on May 15, 1983
Submitted on Dec 8, 2011
