This small nudibranch is uncommon at Enewetak Atoll, where we saw about 22 specimens, all under dead coral on lagoon reefs and pinnacles at depths of 2 to 15 meters. Several more have been found at Kwajalein under similar circumstances. Specimen lengths were from 2 to 9mm, but most were in the 3 to 5mm range. The first two shots show a specimen from Kwajalein Atoll found on 5 January 2009 under a rock at about 6m on a lagoon pinnacle reef. This animal is also figured in Gosliner et al (2008) as Polycera sp. 2.
The 4-5mm specimens in the next few shots were found on a Kwajalein Atoll lagoon reef at a depth of 7m with an egg mass on 16 February 2009.
The animal below was photographed at Enewetak Atoll in 1982.
Created 3 January 2007
Updated 23 February 2009