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Pink-eared rainbow dorid
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A small white chromodorid with red and yellow mantle borders, widespread across the Indo-Pacific. It belongs to a group of similar-looking white Goniobranchus with red and yellow edges.
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White mantle bordered by a thin red outer line and an orange-yellow inner line; some individuals are almost entirely white. Rhinophore clubs are translucent red with white-edged lamellae; the gill is translucent white to reddish with opaque white edging. Foot white.
Goniobranchus preciosus has an additional pale blue to white outermost line and broader bands; G. albonares has only an orange band and white rhinophores.
Coral reefs; recorded to about 28 m.
Like other Goniobranchus, feeds on sponges.
