Selection: Discodoris cebuensis

Discodoris cebuensis Bergh, 1877

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Discodoris cebuensis is light red-brown blotched with darker brown. The notum is covered with low, blunt papillae. Patches of papillae along its margins and on its midline are tipped with white and the central papillae in each patch are dusky violet. The white pigment is variable in extent and there are also three enlarged white papillae on each side of the midline.
Discodoris cebuensis was originally posted at these websites as
Discodoris schmeltziana Bergh, 1877 (not Garrett in Bergh, 1875), this should be regarded as 'nomen dubium' according to:
Dayrat, B. 2010. A Monographic Revision of Basal Discodorid Sea Slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Doridina). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 61, suppl I: 1-403
More informations on Discodoris cebuensis are at Michael D. Miller's Slug Site!