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2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Longhorn pump dorid
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A minute goniodoridid described from the Gulf of Suez in the northern Red Sea. Recent integrative work (Paz-Sedano et al. 2023) showed that the name had been applied to a complex of several externally similar species.
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Translucent white body, 3–5 mm, with yellow restricted to the dorsal tubercles (in three rows), lateral papillae, rhinophores, gill leaves and foot tip. Mantle edge slightly raised; a low ridge runs along the midline from the rhinophores to the gill. Lateral papillae elongate and broader than the gill leaves.
G. geminae and G. unidonta are nearly identical externally (G. geminae is opaque white with one yellow crest); identification usually relies on anatomy and DNA.
Shallow reefs and rubble.
Not documented; like other Goniodoridella, presumably bryozoans.