. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. Pseudoceros nigriramulosus, dorsal surface of body in life. the male copulatory complex which appears to have no specifically diagnostic features. A pair of moniliform uterine canals extend posteriorly from the female complex to a little beyond middle of body, but show no evidence of branching. Pseudoceros nigriramulosus Locality. Inhaca I., Mozambique, July 1958 (V. Gabie leg.) (painting). Description (). No specimen available, but according to a water-colour painting the living worm is el
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. Pseudoceros nigriramulosus, dorsal surface of body in life. the male copulatory complex which appears to have no specifically diagnostic features. A pair of moniliform uterine canals extend posteriorly from the female complex to a little beyond middle of body, but show no evidence of branching. Pseudoceros nigriramulosus Locality. Inhaca I., Mozambique, July 1958 (V. Gabie leg.) (painting). Description (). No specimen available, but according to a water-colour painting the living worm is elongate oval, about 32 mm long and 16 mm wide. The ground-colour of its dorsal surface is yellow with a thin black marginal band around the body. A black median line extends from anterior to posterior region of body, giving off lateral limbs along its course. These limbs have secondary branches. The areas between the branches are speckled with black. There is a yellowish submarginal band with red blotches disposed inter- mittently along the band. Red blotches also cover marginal tentacles. Pseudoceros ovimaculatus Locality. Opposite Marine , Inhaca I., Mozam- bique (V. Gabie leg.) (holotype). Description (). The living worm according to a water- colour painting is broadly oval and measures about 20 mm in length. Its marginal tentacles are prominent and deep brown. Dorsal surface of body brownish, deeper in median region, lighter towards margins; brownish surface furnished with many white oval maculae. An elongate area between ten- tacles of a lighter brown than remainder of dorsal surface. Ventrally, body pinkish. Unfortunately, the only preserved specimen available has been much flattened and is fragmentary. However, sufficient detail has been made out to mention the following; between fifty and sixty eyes in each retracted tentacle; cerebral eyes in two clusters, as shown in Pharynx with four pairs of deep lateral folds. S
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