Hypselodoris whitei? from Solomons

March 19, 2005
From: Barbara Hanchard

Grateful for help with ID of this animal. Helmut Debelius's book shows a similar animal labelled H. mouaci but I see no reference to this in your species list. Confused.

Locality:  Boneghi Beach (2), Honiara, Solomon Islands. Depth: 2 meters. Length: 2 mm. 5 March 2005. sandy bottom. Photographer: Barbara Hanchard.

Barbara Hanchard.

barbara.hanchard@ffa.int

Hanchard, N.B., 2005 (Mar 19) Hypselodoris whitei? from Solomons. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13361

Dear Barbara,
Yes this is Hypselodoris whitei. If you have a look at the species' Fact Sheet I have mentioned that H. mouaci is the same species. When you are using the Forum it always pays to use the Forum Search facility as often names, which are not in the Species List, are mentioned elsewhere in messages or other general information. It also pays to split names up. For example if Hypselodoris mouaci doesn't produce results, try searching for mouaci, because in some cases the genus name [Hypselodoris] may be different in the Forum.

Sorry that names change but as we learn more we find that what we thought were two species are in fact only one - so we keep the oldest name. Sometimes we find we haven't been using the oldest name for a species, so we have to change the name in use to meet this rule. It sounds a bit messy, but I can assure you it would be even messier id there were no rules to follow.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Mar 19). Comment on Hypselodoris whitei? from Solomons by Barbara Hanchard. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13361

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