I found my first seaslug!
July 23, 1999
From: Peter Firminger
Hi Bill,
I found (and collected) a sea slug and left it on your desk in a jar of seawater. Having helped set up this Forum and reading it nearly every day, I was getting frustrated in never having seen anything but photos of sea slugs. So I went down to the Spit (near Mosman in Sydney), leant over the side of a concrete pontoon floating in about 12m of water, and there they were!
There were egg spirals as well, on what I assume is a bryozoan.
What have I found?
Regards,
Peter Firminger
Web Manager
australian museum online
peterf@austmus.gov.au
Firminger, P., 1999 (Jul 23) I found my first seaslug!. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1105Dear Peter,
I can't believe it! What an amazing coincidence. Less than 10 minutes ago I posted a new page on Polycera hedgpethi in response to a message from Betsey Hansen.
If you look at the page you will see your animal is Polycera hedgpethi! For some reason they are quite often found during the winter months in Sydney Harbour. The photos I have posted from nearby Botany Bay were also taken in our southern winter.
Congratulations on your first nudibranch. In California I think that would entitle you to be known as a 'brancher'.
Bill Rudman.
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