inhambane — 30 October 2025
- Location seen
- inhambane, mozambique
- Date seen
- 2025-10-30
Hypselodoris yarae
© Di Syrett / MacroDivers.com
About this species
- Current scientific name
- Hypselodoris yarae
- Order
- Nudibranchia - Doridoidea (Dorids)
- Type
- cryptobranchia
- Genus
- Hypselodoris
- Species
- yarae
- Average size
- 20 mm
- Colours
- white, orange, purple
- Pattern
- spots, stripe
- Body shape
- Oval
- Rhinophores
- Horizontal
- Gills
- External gill plume
- Similar species
- Hypselodoris maculosa, Hypselodoris decorata
Geographic Distribution
Western Indian Ocean.
Identification
Pale pink body with white longitudinal lines and dark pink/purple spots. The mantle edge is orange. The gills are mainly orange with some white and the rhinophores have a series of white and orange bands.
General Notes
Very similar and in the past misidentified as Hypselodoris maculosa. But Hypselodoris maculosa is a distinct Western Pacific species formally described in 2018.