Pseudoceros galatheensis Dixit, Raghunathan & Chandra, 2017

Padmanaban, P., Kumar, A. Anand, Kumar, R. Rajendar, Surendar, C. & Vanishree, J., 2020, On the Polyclads from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve with new records, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 445-453 : 450

7. Pseudoceros galatheensis Dixit, Raghunathan & Chandra, 2017 ( Figure 10&11 )

Material examined: ZSI/ MBRC /PL-353, 1 ex, Thalayari Is., Keelakarai (9°17’93.29”N 78°89’89.41”E), 25.xii.2018, from the dead coral patches in the intertidal zone .

Diagnosis: Body colour light blue, darker at rim. One thin bright yellowish-orange median stripe with darker outline ends without touching posterior margin, Pseudotentacles small and dark blue in colour, in continuation with margins.

Distribution: India: Thalayari Is., GoM; Great Nicobar Island (type locality). Elsewhere: Additional photographic record from Micronesia and Indonesia.

Remarks: The present report of this species from the Gulf of Mannar extends its distributional range far westward from its type locality.

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Figure 10&11. Pseudoceros galatheensis Dixit, Raghunathan & Chandra, 2017.