Doriopsilla nigrocera Yonow 2012

The photograph depicts an elongate oval animal with a wrinkled and damaged margin in life. Dorsum covered in tubercles, themselves covered and sometimes faintly linked to each other with fine white lines. Body was creamy yellow, plumose gills ochre in colour, darker than dorsum, but the rhinophores were black: the stalk was translucent cream and the approximately 15 fine lamellae were charcoal black. The midline on each side and the tip were dusty white. The gut was visible through the skin, opaque creamy orange with black patches. The preserved specimen has a pink cast and is semi-translucent. Surprisingly, the retracted rhinophores are no longer black, and not visible by translucence through the pockets or the body wall. The tubercles are full of spicules. Tubercles are largest centrally and become progressively smaller toward the margin (Plate 59); in preservative, many are mushroom-shaped. The margin itself is rather thick (and damaged on the right side). Ventrally, the anterior margin of the foot is simple, not bilaminate, and there is a fold under the mouth (Fig. 15).