Dendrodoris tuberculosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Figure 14H
Material examined.
Two specimens 24-88 mm, TT.
Ecology.
Found in soft sediment habitats outside the coral reef alongside D. krusensternii . Incorrectly classified as a coral reef-associated species from Koh Tao (Mehrotra and Scott 2016) based on a single observation in shallower waters nearer the coral reef.
Distribution.
Widespread in the Indo-Pacific including the Red Sea (Yonow 2008), Tanzania, South Africa, Maldives, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands (Gosliner et al. 2008), Mozambique ( TibiriƧƔ et al. 2017), India (Apte 2009), Chagos (Yonow et al. 2002), Vietnam (Risbec 1956), Japan (Baba 1949), Hawaii (Kay and Young 1969), and known from both Andaman and Gulf waters of Thailand (Chavanich et al. 2013; Mehrotra and Scott 2016).