Polycera maddoxi is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Polyceridae.

[2] This species was described from two specimens collected in 1997 on a jetty piling at Port Taranaki, New Zealand.

A specimen was photographed in 1988 at Hapuka Rock, Sugar Loaf Islands by David Maddox, who also collected the type specimen.

It has also been reported from the Poor Knights Islands.

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