Palio nothus

                                                                       Synonyms
Polycera ocellata Alder & Hancock;
Body
Up to 20mm long. Edge of reduced mantle forms a short frontal veil, cleft at centre, with about 8 short pale lobes [image1]. Mantle edge continues from veil as a tuberculated ridge along each side to rear of gills, terminating in large, bright white, slightly branched branchial lobe [2]. Ground colour of body dark brown to olive green or grey-green, broken into a network by numerous broad low pale tubercles. Translucent, showing fawn viscera near gills. Colours paler on juveniles [10].
 Rhinophores
Tall, coloured as body, smooth conical base, 7- 9 widely spaced yellow tinted lamellae [6] . Apex produced with low domed summit. On 2mm juveniles, stem shorter, 6 lamellae [5].
Gills
Three, or five, near highest point of dorsum [4]. Partially tripinnate, pale shade of body colour, often with fawn marks.
Head
Ventrally, semicircular, yellowish mottled dull green [7]. Surrounds of mouth swollen, meeting to form a Y. Folded, flattened, rectangular, lateral oral-lobes [3]. Dorsally, mantle edge forms lobed veil [1].
Foot
Sole yellowish mottled dull green [7]. Translucent; fawn viscera visible through sole below gills. Propodial expansion can extend [3] and contract [4]. When animal viewed laterally, upper surface of foot periphery forms grey-white band sprinkled with dull green around base of body [4]. Foot often folded together [8] when removed from thin stemmed polyzoan prey.