Flatworm - Pseudoceros bifurcus
This Pseudoceros bifurcus has several common names : Racing stripe flatworm, orange-band flatworm, orange tipped flatworm.
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.
Similar species: Polycladida
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Dec 7, 2016. Captured Apr 4, 2016 17:32 in Unnamed Road, Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines.