Re: Feeding & Breeding in Gymnodoris ceylonica

September 15, 1999
From: Scott Johnson

Hi Bill,

Regarding your response to my photos of G. ceylonica: thanks for the compliment and only too happy to oblige with the egg mass photos. However, I have to say that after boasting about seeing all these G. ceylonica egg masses, I found to my embarrassment that I seem to have only a single photo of it--and not a very good one at that. Could be my own fault. Mail delivery to Enewetak was slow, and turnaround for professional slide processing could easily be 6 weeks, so I did much of it myself. It is certainly conceivable that I completely destroyed any pics I took the times I saw numerous egg masses. Anyway, the one I have does show the loosely spiralled masses they produce. And to make up for the lack, I also included 3 photos of the egg production process.

Scott

johnson@kmr.ll.mit.edu

Johnson, S., 1999 (Sep 15) Re: Feeding & Breeding in Gymnodoris ceylonica. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1335

No need to apologise for the photo Scott, it complements Julie Marshall's close-up photo. I remember in Tanzania having to send my film to England for processing, where they often seem to be on strike - sometimes for 3 or more months. It was like a surprise present when slides I'd given up on, finally arrived.

Do you know of any other gymnodorid, any nudibranch for that matter, which lays its eggs in little clusters like this? It reminds me of an epitoniid egg mass which also has the eggs in clusters.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 1999 (Sep 15). Comment on Re: Feeding & Breeding in Gymnodoris ceylonica by Scott Johnson. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1335

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