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Emma's hypselodoris
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A slender, brightly striped chromodorid nudibranch. The front of the mantle is rounded and wider than the rest of the body, and the animal waves it as it crawls, apparently as a sensory organ.
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Pale yellow to cream body, paler at the edges, with a violet-pink border to the mantle and foot. The back carries three evenly spaced violet longitudinal lines with four fainter brownish-orange lines between them. Rhinophores and gills are brilliant reddish orange; Pacific animals may have white-tipped rhinophores.
Hypselodoris maridadilus and H. whitei have similar striped patterns; H. emma is recognised by its consistent combination of three violet and four brownish lines on a yellow background.
Tropical reefs, recorded at about 10–20 m.
Like other Hypselodoris, feeds on sponges.
