Tubulophilinopsis pilsbryi (Eliot, 1900) Figure 7K

Material examined.

Two specimens 35-39 mm, SN; two specimens 25-42 mm, TT; one specimen 19 mm, MB.

Ecology.

Abundant in soft sediment habitats outside the coral reef. A single individual of the species was observed being ingested by the scleractinian coral Heteropsammia cochlea (Mehrotra et al. 2019). Depth 12-28 m.

Distribution.

Widespread across the Indo-Pacific including Mozambique ( Tibiriçá and Malaquias 2016), Myanmar (Sanpanich and Duangdee 2019), Vietnam (Martynov and Korshunova 2012), Australia (Nimbs and Smith 2016), the Philippines, Vanuatu (Zamora-Silva and Malaquias 2018), Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Hawaii (Gosliner et al. 2008). Documented from the Gulf of Thailand (Mehrotra and Scott 2016).