Goniobranchus hintuanensis

Goniobranchus hintuanensis is a species of colorful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.^[1]

Goniobranchus hintuanensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Goniobranchus
Species:	G. hintuanensis
Binomial name
Goniobranchus hintuanensis (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998)[1]
Synonyms[1]
Chromodoris hintuanensis Gosliner & Behrens, 1998[2] (basionym)

Distribution

This species was described from Balayan Bay, Luzon, Philippines. It has been reported from the Marshall Islands,^[3] Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. Specimens from the Indian Ocean differ in having yellow spots in the paler patches of the dorsal pattern.^[4][5][6][7]