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Description
Murphydoris is a genus of tiny nudibranchs in the family Goniodorididae and is accepted in WoRMS. The type species is only about 5 mm long and lives in mangroves in Singapore among bryozoan colonies; undescribed species have been seen along the Australian coast. Wikipedia lists five named species. When threatened the animal flattens its body so that spicules project through the body wall, giving it a hedgehog-like look.
Identification
The body is tiny with a transparent, colourless mantle through which the internal organs show, irregular dark reddish-brown blotches and a horseshoe-shaped mark behind the rhinophores. There are no gills around the anus and the rhinophores are non-lamellate.
Species in this genus (1)
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