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Trapania vitta  Gosliner & Fahey, 2008

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Trapania vitta is characterised by a white body, including white tentacular anterior foot corners and white dorso-lateral processes. The oral tentacles have a white base but are primarily orange, the gills are white with orange edging on the dorsal side, and the rhinophores clubs are similarly white with orange at the tip and down the dorsal surface.
Very similar is Trapania aurata , which was also my original identification, it differs only by the dorso-lateral processes, white in Trapania vitta, orange in Trapania aurata.
More informations on Trapania vitta are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum!