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Tergipes sp. 01 Genus: Bergh, 1874
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Tergipes sp. 01 is characterized by its translucent body, rhinophores, oral tentacles, and cerata.
The cerata are elongate and cylindrical, they have a broad diffuse orange-red subapical ring and bluish-white apices.
The digestive glands in the cerata are relatively thick and opaque white.
This specimen is with a total length of 5 mm most probably a juvenile.
Gordon Tillen suggested the identification because of the similarity in the general shape to a picture of a different species of
Tergipes from the Eastern Indian Ocean, Komodo Island, Indonesia,
I agree with the identification, because of the distinctive similar shaped egg-masses. In IPN is a
picture of another different species of Tergipes at page 371, with the same shaped egg-masses.
To my knowledge are these the only pictures of this species, it is not in IPN nor at the internet!
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