About Goniobranchus hintuanensis (Gosliner & Behrens, 1998)
Goniobranchus hintuanensis is a species of colorful sea slug. It is classified as a dorid nudibranch, which is a type of marine gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Chromodorididae. This species was first described from a specimen collected in Balayan Bay, Luzon, Philippines. It has also been reported from the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka. Specimens found in the Indian Ocean have a distinct difference in their dorsal pattern: they have yellow spots in the paler patches of this pattern.