Goniobranchus tritos

Goniobranchus tritos is a species of colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.^[2][3]

Chromodoris tritos

Goniobranchus tritos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Chromodorididae
Genus:	Goniobranchus
Species:	G. tritos
Binomial name
Goniobranchus tritos (Yonow, 1994)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Chromodoris tritos Yonow, 1994 (basionym)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Maldives.^[4]

Description

Goniobranchus tritos has a cream coloured mantle with round black spots, each of which is outlined with a white line. There is a broad band of lilac-grey around the mantle and a narrow line of opaque white at the edge. The gills and rhinophores are grey with white highlights.^[4] The body reaches a length of 50 mm.^[5]