Noumea haliclona from Port Stephens
February 16, 2004
From: David & Leanne Atkinson
Dear Bill,
To accompany our other message [#12223] here is a photo of a single individual travelling on sandy bottom of the same species we found a few weeks later.
Fly Point Sponge Gardens, Marine Reserve, Port Stephens, NSW, Australia
Date: 8.02.04 Time: 11:00am Tide: High 10:30am
Water Temperature: 17 degrees celcius
Nudibranch size: 5mm Depth: 6m
Thanks for your help,
David & Leanne Atkinson
atk@hunterlink.net.au
David & Leanne Atkinson, D .& L., 2004 (Feb 16) Noumea haliclona from Port Stephens. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/12234Dear David & Leanne,
Yes this is one of the New South Wales colour forms of Noumea haliclona. You can see a faint red smudge of the front of each rhinophore
Best wishes
Bill Rudman
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