Taxon;"Colour pattern";Distribution;References "P. ocellatus var. A";"Small ocellate spots and white spots scattered over the head and dorsal flaps. Transverse dark stripes. Foot sole with some white and dark spots and some scattered ocellate spots.";"Okinawa, Japan; Bai Su, Vietnam; Milne Bay and New Hanover, Papua New Guinea; Cebu, Philippines; Ambon, Indonesia";"Adams 2000; Ono 2005; Krampf 2006; Gosliner et al. 2008;" "P. ocellatus var. B";"Body white cream, ocellate spots with red brown rings present over the head and lateral flanks. Dorsal white spots. Foot sole with black spots.";"Okinawa, Japan";"Ono 2005" "P. ocellatus var. C";"Translucent white rose body with few dark red ocellate spots over the parapodia and head. Foot sole with small dark dots green and brown.";"Okinawa, Japan; Mayotte";"Ono 2005; Deuss 2009" "P. ocellatus var. D";"Dorsal body white-green, scattered with yellow spots. Foot sole white green, without spots.";"Okinawa, Japan";"Ono 2005" "P. ocellatus var. E";"Translucent olive-green body, covered with large white-cream spots, rhinophores, oral tentacles and tail with bluish purple tips. Tail tip also black. Foot sole blue.";"West Papua and Sulawesi, Indonesia; Cebu, Philippines; Palau; Milne Bay and New Hanover, Papua New Guinea; Nha Trang, Vietnam; Okinawa, Japan";"Present study, Colin and Arneson 1995; Adams 2000; Warren 2000; Krampf 2006; Coleman 2008; Gosliner et al. 2008" "P. ocellatus var. F";"Rhinophores, oral tentacles and tail with black tips. Head and parapodia cover with many ocellate spots, small yellow and medium dark. Lateral flanks with largest black ocelli. Foot translucent green with few black ocelli.";"Okinawa and Kagoshima, Japan";"Imamoto 2005" "P. ocellatus var. G";"Body rose-brown, with white spots and some scattered brown and blue spots.";"Moorea, French Polynesia";"Geiger 2001" "P. ocellatus var. H";"Body white-light green with a little rose on head. Yellow ocellate spots all over the parapodia, only two on head. Lateral flanks with large green ocellate spots. Oral tentacles and rhinophores tips blue. Rhinophore with a fuchsia sub-terminal ring.";"Cebu, Philippines";"Raabe 2006" "P. ocellatus var. I";"Body dark green with tiny white spots, lateral flanks, tail and rhinophores tips blue or violet, over the midline of the head with blue/violet and some scattered black spots.";"Thailand; Bali and Gorontalo, Indonesia; Hawaii";"Gould 1852; Coleman 2008; Gosliner et al. 2008; Supapong 2008" "P. ocellatus s.s.";"Body pale yellow-green. Head and parapodial dorsal surface covered with ocellate spots (coloured rings). Whitish, purple rhinophores, green-blue ocellata on flanks. Front of the head and foot sole with dark ocelli.";"Eastern Australia; Bohol and Cebu, Philippines; Guam; Indonesia; Mayotte; Danang City, Vietnam; Red Sea; Japan; Thailand; Maui, Hawaii";"van Hasselt 1824; Jensen 1992; Colin and Arneson 1995; Erhardt and Baensch 1998; Rudman 1998; Koehler 1998; Marshall and Willan 1999; Coleman 2001; Jacobson 2003; Rudman 2003; Wyatt 2003; Groeneveld 2006; Raabe 2006; Tuyen 2008; Yonow 2008; Deuss 2009" "P. papua sp. n.";"Body yellow-orange with white spots on the dorsum. Rhinophores and tail black: Open parapodia green. Foot sole white with black end.";"West Papua, Indonesia";"Present study"