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Trapania vitta Gosliner & Fahey, 2008
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Trapania vitta is characterized by a white body, including white tentacular anterior foot corners, which have orange tips in some specimens,
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. There is an orange middorsal line at the posterior end of the foot.
Very similar are:
Trapania aurata, which was my original identification of this specimen, it differs only by the
dorso-lateral processes, which have an orange longitudinal band, and
Trapania cf. aurata, which differs by the orange longitudinal bands at the dorso-lateral processes, and lacks orange
on the gills, rhinophores and at the posterior end of the foot.
More informations on Trapania vitta are at
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