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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
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