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2026 · Photo: Boaz Liebes
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
A small, brightly coloured triophid dorid with long branched appendages around the head and along the sides. Originally known only from Japan, it is now recorded across the western Pacific.
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Pale yellow-orange to deep orange-red body with white specks. Six long branched velar appendages on the head and four on each side of the body, with translucent white stalks and sharp, pointed orange-red branches. Bipinnate gills with carmine-red tips.
Kaloplocamus ramosus has blunter appendages; Plocamopherus species have a more pronounced head veil and ball-like tips on the side appendages.
Shallow rocky and reef habitats, often under rocks; records from around 4 m.
Probably bryozoans, as in other triophids.