Spurilla creutzbergi? from Jamaica

October 22, 2003
From: Ross W. Gundersen


Dear Bill:
Here is another sea slug from Jamaica. As I said in my first message, all specimens were collected from St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, West Indies. Most specimens were collected using a light weight dredge and photographed by R. Gundersen.

This was 1.5 cm in length. Dredged at 5 m in Thallassia.

Exhibit peculiar rocking motion when moving (video). Similar to Spurilla neapolitana, but with irregular shaped cerrata.

Best wishes,
Ross

ross.gundersen@uwp.edu

Gundersen, R.W., 2003 (Oct 22) Spurilla creutzbergi? from Jamaica. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11136

Dear Ross,
This is a bit of a puzzle. It certainly looks like the animal Colin Redfern has identified as Spurilla creutzbergi in ceratal shape and arrangement, and the 'peculiar rocking motion' ceratinly fit observations by Redfern and Edmunds & Just [see Colin Redfern's message]. On e apparent difference however is that your animal seems to have lamellate rhinophores.

I think we would need to have larger images so we could see a more detail to be sure. I'll tentatively identify it as Spurilla creutzbergi but I'm not convinced
Best wishes
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Oct 22). Comment on Spurilla creutzbergi? from Jamaica by Ross W. Gundersen. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11136

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