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Leopard Flatworm

Pseudobiceros pardalis

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take at -30 ft in a Caribbean reef well is like a Spanish dancer. 2 or 3 cm long.Purple-brown background turning into black toward the margin. The dorsal surface shows orange and smaller yellow dots outlined by a black shadow. Small white spots along the margin around the whole body. The ventral surface is light purple-violet becoming more transparent towards the margin. Based on the color pattern established for all Pseudobiceros, this species belongs to the group 4. The sucker is visible and centrally located. The species possesses 2 male gonopores evident externally and a female gonopore located on the midventral line.

Habitat:

Found from Florida all the Caribbean sea Brazil.

Notes:

"This Leopard Flatworm is not a nudibranch or sea slug. Flatworms have no body cavity, and no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion."

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Comments (32)

Congratulations Gerardo. You deserve this for all the fine photos you contribute.
Congrats on the SOTD, Gerardo! Well deserved. :)
Thanks Yasser is been a grate journey whit all this community thanks to all Rangers for your priceless help and to all Wildlife that enlighten my life everyday. Thanks to all my friends for your very kind comments.
Congratulations Gerardo :) Well deserved, you have so many amazing and wonderfull spottings...
Congrats Pal !
Fantastic shoot and great contrast catched..
Wonderful capture Gerardo! Congratulations on this & your many other photos that provide a glimpse of a wonderful underwater world I never realized existed!
Gerardo! This beauty has been chosen as Spotting of the Day! Congratulations my friend and thanks for all of your wonderful contributions to the community. "This Leopard Flatworm is not a nudibranch or sea slug. Flatworms have no body cavity, and no specialized circulatory and respiratory organs, which restricts them to flattened shapes that allow oxygen and nutrients to pass through their bodies by diffusion." Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151445477815603&set=a.10151164681410603.791492.10150120463815603&type=1&theater Twitter: http://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/185940818840915970
beautiful ! - looks like a lost piece of bikini !!
Add this to the new flatworms mission? http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8533372
That's one very colourful flatworm. Nice spotting!
It could also be a flat worm as the one I´ve seen in Isla Mujeres. Check it out: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7471482

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