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Simple rainbow dorid
Israel · Mediterranean
A small chromodorid that feeds on pink sponges and usually sits wedged in crevices or under rocks. Unlike many chromodorids its gills do not wave rhythmically. First published for the Mediterranean from Lebanon (Furfaro et al. 2025).
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Oval white to pink body, sometimes with scattered orange spots. Orange (sometimes broken or violet) line around the mantle edge. Rhinophore clubs and gills tipped deep orange.
Verconia sudanica (Red Sea) lacks the orange tips on the rhinophores and gills.
Rocky reefs, often in crevices or under rocks on encrusting sponges, intertidal to 35 m.
Pink sponges, probably Darwinella.
