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  • head: warts + 2 ridges between eyes
    eye: 2 deeply branched cirri
    head & body - white spots
    D: front ocellus
  • cirri: center snout 1, eyes 2 pairs very bushy, nape 2 rows
    operculum - oblique dark-edged pale bar
  • male eye cirri very long, flattened
    male: 1st D spine ~ 4 skin flaps
    male: red brown; eye cirri green + orange; thin cream bars on body
    A 25-26
    female: pale spots in dark mesh, D with dark spot
  • nape - U crest with flaps, 1 pair papillae
    eye: 2 large branched cirri
    body - brown spots and thin pale bars
    D: red spots & bars