Racing Stripe Flatworm

Common name

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

Distribution

Tropical Indo-Pacific, from eastern cost 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.