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Animal realm > Invertebrates > Flatworms > Pseudoceros bifurcus

Pseudoceros bifurcus

Scientific name : Pseudoceros bifurcus


Blue lavender colour, with a longitudinal stripe along the midline. The stripe is mainly white, orange anteriorly, and with a purple edge posteriorly. 6 cm.
The commonest species in our area. Living along the external reef.
Cycloporus venetus have a similar colour, but the medial stripe is exclusive.

Associated organisms
Mainly feeding on colonial ascidians (we have always observed it feeding on an unidentified species), extruding tubules from the pharynges and attacking simultaneously the inner organs of different zooids.


Habitat: Reef external slope

Distribution: Western Pacific

Sheet author: MASSIMO BOYER
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