Psychedelic Batwing Slug

Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cephalaspidea
Family: Gastropteridae
Genus: Sagaminopteron
Species: Sagaminopteron psychedelicum

The psychedelic batwing slug (Sagaminopteron psychedelicum) is a tiny headshield slug with a mesh of blue, orange and green lines. Its wing-like parapodia give it the batwing name.

It grows to about 1 cm and lives and feeds on Dysidea sponges. It can swim by flapping its parapodia.

In the Philippines it is found on reefs on its sponge host.