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2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Warty sucking dorid
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A large, soft-bodied dorid that can reach 20 cm. Like other Dendrodoris it lacks a radula and digests its sponge prey externally. Its colour is very variable, but the underside of the mantle skirt always bears large round white spots.
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Back densely covered with small rounded tubercles grouped into larger compound knobs. Colour ranges from greenish or yellowish brown to dark brown, reddish, pink or grey. Rhinophores have dark stalks and pale, white-flecked clubs; gills similar. The diagnostic feature is the large white circular blotches under the mantle skirt.
Dendrodoris carbunculosa has large tubercles separated by smooth skin, each ringed by small basal tubercles, rather than uniform dense tuberculation.
Coral and rocky reefs, often under stones; shallow water.
Sponges, like other Dendrodoris.