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Precious nudibranch
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A white chromodorid with a striking tricoloured mantle border, belonging to the group of white Goniobranchus with red and yellow edges. The mantle is narrow and barely covers the foot.
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White mantle, sometimes with translucent patches or small brownish spots. The edge has three bands: a fine pale blue to whitish outer line, a broad deep red band, then a broad yellow band inside. Rhinophores and gill are translucent red to reddish-purple with white-edged lamellae.
Goniobranchus verrieri lacks the pale outer line and has narrower bands; G. trimarginatus and G. woodwardae have different band sequences.
Intertidal and subtidal reefs, under rocks in mixed soft and hard bottoms, seagrass, algal and gorgonian beds; to about 15 m.
Like other Goniobranchus, feeds on sponges.
