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Description
Cabangus is a small genus of dendronotid nudibranchs in the family Dendronotidae, established in 2021 for species formerly placed in Dendronotus (C. noahi and C. regius). The species are known from Indonesia, the Philippines and Sabah in the tropical Indo-Pacific and reach about 3 cm. No reliable information on the diet of the genus was found.
Identification
The genus name comes from the Indonesian cabang, branch, referring to the branched dorsolateral appendages. In C. regius there are four pairs of such appendages with tree-like brown tips, similar branching on the front margin of the head and on the rhinophore sheaths, and bright orange lamellate rhinophore clubs.
Species in this genus (1)
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