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Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Subphylum: Rhabditophora Ehlers. 1985
Order: Polyclaldida Lang, 1884
Family: Pseudocerotidae Lang, 1884
Pseudoceros galaxea Dixit, 2021
Collection: Agatti Island (near CMLRE field research station), 10°50′38′′N 72°11′17′′E, Lakshadweep, India. 07.5.2019.
Voucher No.: IO/IT/POY/00029 – Holotype; IO/IT/POY/00030 – Paratype
Description: Background body colour chocolate brown with numerous small white to cream dots on the entire dorsal surface. These minute dots are very densely distributed giving a spray-like appearance. Some white dots are too close forming clusters appearing like bigger dots. A black marginal band studded with white microdots runs around the whole body including pseudotentacles.
Biological association: None.
Remarks: None.
Distribution: Lakshadweep Islands, India.
Distribution map:
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Identified by: Sudhanshu Dixit
Publication: Dixit, S., Manjebrayakat, H. & Saravanane, N. 2021. Two new Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Pseudocerotidae) from Agatti Island, India and a species checklist from Indian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 101: 253–263. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315421000151
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