A shaggy dorid carrying a dense coat of soft papillae rather than hard tubercles.
A dorid to about 4 cm whose upper surface is covered in slender papillae of unequal length, soft and flexible, set close enough together that the outline of the animal is broken up and the margin reads as a fringe rather than as an edge. Colour runs yellow, orange, fawn and brown, plain or with darker flecks, and the papillae are usually the same colour as the body or a little paler. The rhinophores are lamellate and the gill plume retracts.
The papillae are the character worth holding on to, because they are not the rigid spicule-tipped kind that give Jorunna parva and the small red Rostanga their granular surface. These are soft, they move with the water, and they collect sediment and detritus, which is a large part of why an animal in the open is difficult to resolve as an animal at all.
Feeds on sponges, and is found on and beside sponge on rubble, dead coral and rock. Species in the genus are separated on the radula and on the shape and distribution of the papillae under magnification, several of the animals photographed in the region have no settled name, and records normally stay at the genus. Recorded from about 3 to 25 m.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.
