{"id":9446,"date":"2013-07-06T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2013-05-27T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T07:18:22","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-unidentified-flatworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9446","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Unidentified Flatworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was small, but I was looking for small, scouring a reef wall at Kua Bay.  At first glance I hoped I had found a nudibranch, a closer look revealed a flatworm.  A pretty little creature moving quickly across a sponge covered surface.  I did not recognize the species, not one of the usual flatworms we see by day.  Certainly not another fuchsia flatworm, I had lost count of those early in the dive.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone in not being able to identify the species.  It was not in the book, I had to search the websites before I found any reference to a matching species.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiisfishes.com\/inverts\/polyclad_flatworms\/pages\/Pseudoceros23_JPG.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reference on Hoover&#8217;s website<\/a> came without an identification, merely a genus name and a description that perfectly matched the flatworm I had found.  Active by day on a shaded wall&#8230; Check.  Found at 15-20ft&#8230; Check, more or less, found at 30ft.  Reported from Maui by a known <a href=\"http:\/\/seaslugsofhawaii.com\/general\/look-alikes-flatworms.html\" target=\"_blank\">expert in the field Cory Pittman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The worm does resemble a species known in Indonesia, the Philippines and the Mariana Islands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nudipixel.net\/species\/pseudoceros_bimarginatus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pseudoceros bimarginatus<\/a>.  There are some differences in the photos as well.  No clear answer, best leave this ID to experts.  I have forwarded my photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Thus my identification remains&#8230; Pseudoceros sp?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9447\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9447\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF46-05-13146-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Unidentified Flatworm\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF46-05-13146-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF46-05-13146-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified flatworm (Pseudoceros sp?) found at 30ft on a wall at Kua Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was small, but I was looking for small, scouring a reef wall at Kua Bay. At first glance I hoped I had found a nudibranch, a closer look revealed a flatworm. A pretty little creature moving quickly across a sponge covered surface. I did not recognize the species, not one of the usual flatworms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Unidentified Flatworm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,23],"tags":[511,1070,98,37,1104],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}