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Flabellina bilas  Gosliner & Willan, 1991

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Flabellina bilas has a broad diffuse red ring on the upper third half of each ceras. The cerata are basally white, subapically are 2 narrow red rings, each with a narrow opaque white ring above and below it, the tips are red. The oral tentacles have a flattened terminal lobe. Distinctive are the whitish-blue diamond-shaped medial markings on the dorsum.
It is similar in shape to Flabellina riwo, including the long oral tentacles with flattened tips. It differs by the colour pattern.
One more species with that kind of oral tentacles is Flabellina bicolor.
More informations on Flabellina bilas are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum!