Michael Eisenbart
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Pseudoceros leptostictus Bock, 1913
The dotted flatworm has a cream-white background with blotchy brown central portion that varies is size. Its scattered white, black, and yellow dots and a black marginal band containing many transverse lines.
It feeds on sponges, ascidians and detritus.
Reproduction:
The whirlworm can reproduce both asexually and sexually. This species is hermaphroditic, meaning that it has both male and female reproductive organs. When two whirlworms reproduce, they fight to decide who will be fertilized and who will be the fertilizer. The winner gets to act as the male individual and fertilize the other.
The dotted flatworm has a cream-white background with blotchy brown central portion that varies is size. Its scattered white, black, and yellow dots and a black marginal band containing many transverse lines.
It feeds on sponges, ascidians and detritus.
Reproduction:
The whirlworm can reproduce both asexually and sexually. This species is hermaphroditic, meaning that it has both male and female reproductive organs. When two whirlworms reproduce, they fight to decide who will be fertilized and who will be the fertilizer. The winner gets to act as the male individual and fertilize the other.
