Selection: Protaeolidiella sp. 01

Protaeolidiella sp. 01 Genus: Baba, 1955

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I thought in the field, when I was taking this shot at Cabilao island: this is a very small species of Doto, my eyes are pretty poor. At home, looking at the picture, I realized that the animal is much longer, than I thought before! I thought it ends after the first 5 pairs of whitish cerata, but there are many more! Now I like to say it is a species of Protaeolidiella, this ID was confirmed by Dr. Juan Lucas Cervera Currado, that is of course also only a guess, as it is always without looking at the anatomy...
It might be a variant of Eubranchus sp. 02, which is regrowing most of its cerata.
It was originally posted at these websites as Protaeolidiella sp. A Genus: Baba, 1955.
For some genera, such as Trinchesia was the alphabet almost through. I had to change the distinguishing alphabetic character into a number. I have chosen 2-digit numbers, even if '01' looks a little bit stupid, and now is only the genus italic written.