Pink Banded Flatworm
This is a locally common flatworm. Everybody calls it Pseudoceros cf. gamblei. I assume that comes by copying and pasting and experts being too busy to either read up or describe a new species. This is what we call science, copying from people who copy etc. Luckily, the description is available online http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41855#page/86/mode/1up, see page 297 (plate XV figure 18 for the ones interested in a more private part). I am not saying that my ID is correct. Quite the contrary. But it gives as much and more information than simply adding a cf. behind a scientific name of a animal that someone dared to name and publish somewhere. This is rather a call for more research into non-bird and non-fish areas - research into taxonomic areas that don't promise to be directly commercially relevant (but actually have a huge potential to become so).
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