So far we have seen this species on only two occasions (maybe) in the Marshalls. The first was on 6 July 1981 at 5m on one of the pilings under Medren Pier at Enewetak Atoll. This is the first animal below, which measured 22mm in length and looked a bit different from the subsequent specimens from Kwajalein.
On 24 April 2011, we ran across five more specimens on Caulerpa in a mixed algae patch in 8m of water on a Kwajalein Atoll lagoon reef. The next few photos are of these specimens, which looked a bit different from the Enewetak animal above.
The next one had just punctured a Caulerpa "balloon."
Created 7 February 2007
Updated 1 May 2011