Taxon classification Animalia Aplousobranchia Didemnidae

Diplosoma simileguwa Oka & Hirose, 2005 Fig. 3E, F

Specimens.

MZB. Asc. 00008

Habitat.

Shaded side of dead coral branches in reef flat

Remarks.

Colonies were irregularly shaped sheets and entirely green due to Prochloron cells distributed within common cloacal cavities. Retractor muscle emerged from underside of thorax. The numbers of stigmata were 4 –5–4– 3. This record is the first of this species from outside of the Taiwan–Ryukyu area.