Kingdom Animalia Family Pseudocerotidae Genus Pseudoceros Order Polycladida | Class Turbellaria Phylum Platyhelminthes Rank Species | |
 | ||
Similar Pseudoceros, Pseudobiceros, Pseudoceros dimidiatus, Pseudoceros ferrugineus, Polycladida | ||
Penis fencing in pseudoceros bifurcus
Pseudoceros bifurcus is a marine flatworm species that belongs to the Pseudocerotidae family.
Contents
Common name
Racing stripe flatworm, orange-band flatworm, orange tipped flatworm.
Distribution
Tropical Indo-Pacific, from eastern coast of Africa to Micronesia.
Habitat
External slope or top from coral reef.
Size
Up to 2 inches (5.1 cm).
Physical characteristics
"Dorsal surface with a background varying from green-bluish to cream with an intense purple margin without forming a distinctive marginal band. There is orange elongated spot beginning at the cerebral eyespot fading into a white median stripe that ends close to the posterior margin. Cream pseudotentacles formed by simple folds of the anterior margin with numerous ocella. A single cerebral cluster formed by about 30 eyes. Pharynx with elaborated folds."
Behavior
Benthic, diurnals, because of its aposematic colors, it has no fear to crawl around to feed.
