Goniobranchus kitae

Goniobranchus kitae is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.^[2]

Goniobranchus kitae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Goniobranchus
Species:	G. kitae
Binomial name
Goniobranchus kitae (Gosliner, 1994)[1]
Synonyms
Chromodoris kitae Gosliner, 1994 (basionym)

Distribution

This species is known from Madagascar and South Africa.^[3]

Description

Goniobranchus kitae has a white translucent mantle with a broken yellow submarginal line at the edge. The mantle is covered with large round magenta spots. The gill leaves and rhinophores are translucent with small white spots on the surfaces.^[4] It has some similarity to Goniobranchus bimaensis and Goniobranchus tumuliferus.^[3]