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Created 12/31/2013

Family Pseudocerotidae

HAWAII

Pseudobiceros cf. gloriosus

Ventral view, Ma'alaea Bay, Maui

GLORIOUS FLATWORM

Uncommon on shallow reefs at night.  Upper surface black, underside magenta, wide orange band with narrow magenta margin.  Hawaii animals lack a narrow pink margin between the orange and magenta.  Attains 2 inches.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.