Phyllidia elegans from Vanuatu

October 19, 2003
From: Gary Cobb


Hi Bill!
Please find attached another photo I took while diving at Aore Island. Santo Vanuatu.
It was 30mm long, 15m depth, Sept 2003
Can you help me ID it? Is that gills I can see underneath?
Gary Cobb

gary@cobb.com.au

Cobb, G., 2003 (Oct 19) Phyllidia elegans from Vanuatu. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11193

Hi Gary,
This is Phyllidia elegans. The broken black line down the midline of the sole of the foot is a useful character. And yes those are gills you can see on the underside down each side of the body. Phyllidiids have lost the circle of gills around a dorsal anus and replaced it with these leaflets along each side. They are what we call secondary gills.
Best wishes
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Oct 19). Comment on Phyllidia elegans from Vanuatu by Gary Cobb. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11193

Factsheet

Phyllidia elegans

Related messages

  1. Phyllidia elegans from Nth Sulawesi
    From: Sebastian Ferse, June 6, 2007
  2. Phyllidia elegans from Indonesia
    From: Sebastian Ferse, June 4, 2007
  3. Phyllidia elegans laying eggs
    From: Mirjam Broos, May 30, 2007
  4. Phyllidia elegans from the Nthn Mariana Ids
    From: Kenji Kobayashi, December 20, 2003
  5. Phyllidia elegans from Myanmar
    From: Mary Jane Adams, April 3, 2003
  6. Phyllidia elegans colour forms mating
    From: Erwin Koehler, August 16, 2002
  7. Phyllidia elegans and P. schupporum
    From: Bernard Picton , July 4, 2002
  8. Phyllidia elegans From Riau, Indonesia
    From: Alice Lee, July 2, 2002
  9. Phyllidia elegans from Malaysia
    From: Kheong Sann Chan, June 15, 2002
  10. Phyllidia elegans from Christmas Island
    From: W.B. Rudman, May 15, 2002
  11. Phyllidia elegans from Indonesia
    From: W.B. Rudman, May 9, 2002
  12. Phyllidiid from the Red Sea
    From: Erwin Koehler, January 16, 2002
  13. Re: Phyllidia elegans?
    From: Erwin Koehler, September 3, 2001
  14. Phyllidia elegans?
    From: Erwin Koehler, August 9, 2001
  15. Phyllidia elegans? from Lady Musgrave Island
    From: David Harasti, February 17, 2001
  16. Phyllidia elegans from Indonesia
    From: Yasman, December 29, 2000
  17. Phyllidia elegans? from Java
    From: Aloysia Murni Shintosari, July 21, 2000
  18. What does Phyllidia elegans eat?
    From: John Brady, June 11, 2000
  19. Phyllidia elegans from Sulawesi
    From: Carlos Villoch, September 18, 1999
  20. Phyllidia elegans from Papua New Guinea
    From: Des Paroz, July 11, 1999

Show factsheet and all related messages