Trapania euryeia
Dappled pump dorid
Philippines · Indo Pacific - South China Sea
- Size
- 3–10 mm · max 16 mm
- Native range
- Indo-Pacific, from Réunion to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands and Hawaii
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Description
A small goniodoridid described by Gosliner & Fahey (2008); its name, Greek for 'widespread', reflects that it is the most widely distributed Trapania in the Indo-Pacific. It was earlier reported in Japan under the name T. brunnea.
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Identification
Translucent brown body with tiny pale yellow or straw-coloured dots, overlaid with a symmetrical white pattern (often a white patch on the head, a Y or V between rhinophores and gill, and a broken band behind the gill). Typical Trapania shape: smooth, convex body with paired curved appendages beside the rhinophores and the three-branched gill.
Similar species
Trapania brunnea (temperate Australia) is very similar but lacks the tiny yellow dorsal dots; T. miltabrancha is stockier with red swirls.
Habitat & diet
Habitat
Reefs and rubble slopes.
Food
Like other Trapania, presumably entoprocts (Entoprocta).
