Pseudobiceros pardalis ( Verrill, 1900 )

Cuadrado, Daniel, Hernández-Gonzalez, Alejandro, Noreña, Carolina & Simões, Nuno, 2024, Polyclads (Platyhelminthes) in the southern Gulf of Mexico: unveiling biodiversity and descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1221, pp. 103-144 : 103-144

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1221.128260

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scientific name

Pseudobiceros pardalis ( Verrill, 1900 )
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Pseudobiceros pardalis ( Verrill, 1900) View in CoL

Fig. 14 View Figure 14

Material examined.

Quintana Roo coast, Mexico 1; Mahahual; 18.6 ° N, 87.7 ° W; 5.3 m; 17 Mar. 2018; A. Hernández leg.; CRPPY - 0113 GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

Original description from Bermuda ( Verrill 1900); Bocas del Toro, Panamá, Caribbean Sea ( Bolaños et al. 2007; Marcus 1950); Rio de Janeiro and Alagoas, Brazil ( Bahia et al. 2012, 2014, 2015). New record for the cost of Quintana Roo (Mexican Caribbean).

Description.

Body shape elongated with rounded anterior and tapering posteriorly, 1.3 cm in length and 0.7 cm in width. Body margins slightly wavy. Purple-brown background, darker at the margins, with yellow and orange spots outlined by a black circle, and tiny white spots along the entire body margin (Fig. 14 A, B, C View Figure 14 ). Ventral surface characterised by a light purple shade, more translucent towards the margin. Two external and prominent male gonopores, together with the female gonopore located in the ventral midline (Fig. 14 D View Figure 14 ). Additionally, a ventral sucker is present, situated in the centre of the body.