Is this Doris verrucosa?

October 20, 1999
From: Erwin Koehler


Bill,
I don't want to get on your nerves - asking for IDs of Mediterranean slugs...but I think your FORUM is pretty much more visited as my site, maybe you or somebody else can help me.
This photo is by Daniel L. Geiger, from Southern France, Banyuls sur Mer, 1988.
Daniel tenatively identified it (with ???) as Phyllidiopsis berghi. I think it looks a little bit like Doris verrucosa in the "Atlas of Mediterranean Nudibranchs" with retracted gills, but this is only a
guess.
Erwin.

Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de

Koehler, E., 1999 (Oct 20) Is this Doris verrucosa?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1444

Dear Erwin,
I usually go to your site when I am trying to sort out Mediterranean species! Daniel has also sent me this photo. I agree with you that it is not a phyllidiid. I have added an enlargement of the gill pocket above, which shows it can't be a phyllidiid.

More importantly, the very large tubercles, bordering the gill pocket, (see the white arrows), are considered characteristic of Doris verrucosa by Thompson & Brown (1984), so I think your guess is probably correct.

I have had trouble finding a good photograph of this species, either in books or websites, so I might be quite wrong. If anyone has a good photo they are willing to share, it would be very welcome.
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 1999 (Oct 20). Comment on Is this Doris verrucosa? by Erwin Koehler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1444

Factsheet

Doris verrucosa

Related messages

  1. Re: Doris verrucosa from Mediterranean France
    From: Dominique Horst, October 7, 2009
  2. Doris verrucosa from Senegal
    From: Marina Poddubetskaia, July 9, 2003
  3. Doris verrucosa - egg-ribbon
    From: Marina Poddubetskaia, July 9, 2003
  4. Doris verrucosa from Mediterranean France
    From: Jean-Pierre Bielecki , June 15, 2002
  5. Re: Is this Doris verrucosa?
    From: Ángel Valdés, October 21, 1999

Show factsheet and all related messages