2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Halgerda carlsoni
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
- Size
- 25–40 mm
- Depth
- 3–35 m
- Native range
- Tropical Indo-West Pacific, from East Africa to Japan, Fiji and Tonga
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Description
A medium-sized, high-bodied dorid whose back is thrown into sharp ridges forming a network, with tubercles where the ridges meet. Its Japanese name compares the tubercles to star-shaped konpeito sugar candy.
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Identification
Translucent white body densely sprinkled with small orange-red specks (absent from the mantle edge), and white-ringed orange-red tips on the tubercles. Rhinophores and gills yellowish to white with black speckles; foot edged orange-red.
Similar species
Halgerda malesso and H. aurantiomaculata are also white with orange; H. carlsoni is recognised by the fine orange specks over the whole mantle combined with orange-tipped tubercles.
Habitat & diet
Habitat
Coral reefs, including vertical walls; from about 3 m to at least 35 m.
Food
Sponges, like other Halgerda.
