Jonathan Hsieh
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Pseudoceros imperatus, Newman and Cannon, 1998
The background colour is brown. On the body is a yellow-green median stripe and transverse branches.The median stripe and the branches are white bordered.Irregular yellow-green white bordered spots on the body.The mantle margin is a dark orange.This flatworm can be found under coral rubble.
Pseudoceros imperatus feeds on colonial ascidians.
Very similar are Pseudoceros zebra and Pseudoceros scintillatus.
Reproduction:
The whirlworm can reproduce both asexually and sexually. This species is hermaphroditic, meaning that it has both male and female reproductive organs. When two whirlworms reproduce, they fight to decide who will be fertilized and who will be the fertilizer. The winner gets to act as the male individual and fertilize the other.
The background colour is brown. On the body is a yellow-green median stripe and transverse branches.The median stripe and the branches are white bordered.Irregular yellow-green white bordered spots on the body.The mantle margin is a dark orange.This flatworm can be found under coral rubble.
Pseudoceros imperatus feeds on colonial ascidians.
Very similar are Pseudoceros zebra and Pseudoceros scintillatus.
Reproduction:
The whirlworm can reproduce both asexually and sexually. This species is hermaphroditic, meaning that it has both male and female reproductive organs. When two whirlworms reproduce, they fight to decide who will be fertilized and who will be the fertilizer. The winner gets to act as the male individual and fertilize the other.
