Re: Thecacera pennigera?

March 26, 1998
From: Bernard Picton

Bill,
At last I've seen an antipodean Thecacera pennigera which looks exactly like our British ones - the ones David and Leanne photographed are very convincing!

Bernard Picton

bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk

Picton, B., 1998 (Mar 26) Re: Thecacera pennigera?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/128

This opens up an interesting area of speculation. If the European ones have only this small spotted colour form while we have a variety of colour forms, is it not reasonable to suggest that the species is a native of the Western Pacific and the Atlantic population is the immigrant population descended from some small-spotted individuals which hitched a ride there on the bottom of some explorer's boat?.. Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 1998 (Mar 26). Comment on Re: Thecacera pennigera? by Bernard Picton. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/128

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