''Pseudoceros bifurcus'' is a marine

flatworm Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...

species that belongs to the family Pseudocerotidae.

Common name

Racing stripe flatworm, orange-band flatworm, orange tipped flatworm.

Distribution

Tropical Indo-Pacific, from eastern coast of Africa to Micronesia and China

Habitat

Claudio Bisio, memo CB

Size

Up to .

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 an 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."Author Bolanos Marcela, extract from http://polycladida.lifedesks.org/pages/4224

Behavior

Benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

, diurnals, because of its aposematic colors, it has no fear to crawl around to feed.

External links

Life desk, Pseudoceros bifurcus

Discover Life, Pseudoceros bifurcus

Bibliographical references

* Leslie Newman & Lester Cannon, "Marine Flatworms", CSIRO publishing, 2003, * Neville Coleman, "Marine life of Maldives", Atoll editions, 2004, * Andrea & Antonnella Ferrrari,"Macrolife", Nautilus publishing, 2003, Turbellaria Animals described in 1989 {{flatworm-stub