Thecacera pennigera from Senegal

June 20, 2005
From: Marina Poddubetskaia

Dear Bill,

Here is a record of Thecacera pennigera from Dakar. I saw this species in large numbers but at only one place full of the bryozoan like in second photo.

Locality: 'Iles de la Madeleine', Dakar, Senegal. Atlantic Ocean. Depth: 7 m. Length: 13 mm. 29 May 2005. Photos: Marina Poddubetskaia - Nembro website

Cordially,
Marina.

nembro@nembro.info

Poddubetskaia, M. , 2005 (Jun 20) Thecacera pennigera from Senegal. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14090

Dear Marina,
Your message arrived just as I was posting one on an animal from South Australia [message #14077]. Your animal certainly illustrates just how uniform is the colour pattern of Atlantic animals compared with those populations from the Pacific.

I am not an expert on bryozoans but your photo looks quite similar to the one identified as  Bugula plumosa in Picton & Morrow (1997).

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Jun 20). Comment on Thecacera pennigera from Senegal by Marina Poddubetskaia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14090

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