Flatworm at Lauderdale By The Sea

[Pipehorse]

I found this flatworm while diving a Lauderdale by The Sea(south east Florida). At a depth of about 18 feet, near the reef sand interface, usually pretty adept at identifying creatures I haven't seen before but this one has me stumped, anybody now what species it is?

 

[Vie]

Looks like one of the undescribed Euryleptids (Eurylepta sp).

 

[fisheyeview]

It's a Maritigrella newmanae

 

[Vie]

See Bolanos, D. Marcela, Sigmer Y. Quiroga & Marian K. Litvaitis. Five new species of cotylean flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the wider Caribbean. Zootaxa 1650: 1–23 (2007).

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01650p023.pdf