Aglajid ? sp. e326

This small 4mm long cephalaspidean is not positively unidentified, although it resembles and could be the gray form of the Aglaja regiscorona figured on the Hawaii Sea Slugs site. The zoomed in image below doesn't show much detail, but the surface is pustulose with small white warts. To the naked eye, the color appears black with the small white pustules and scattered larger white patches. Under magnification, the coloration resolves to translucent gray covered with black and white granules, the white ones more prominent on the pustules. There are orange bands running laterally just inside the parapodia. The single specimen was found on Enewetak's lagoon reef, under a chunk of dead coral at a depth of 5 meters.

Created 28 January 2007
Updated 5 December 2008