Chromodoris tinctoria from Lord Howe Island
October 30, 1999
From: Wayne Ellis
HI Bill,
Attached is an image from Lord Howe Island [off eastern Australia]. I'm not sure about. it was collected in October 1987. Is this Chromodoris tinctoria / recticulata or something else?
Wayne Ellis
glaskin@ozemail.com.au
Ellis, W., 1999 (Oct 30) Chromodoris tinctoria from Lord Howe Island. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1466Dear Wayne,
Yes this is Chromodoris tinctoria. As I try and show at the top of the page, there is quite a bit of colour variation in this species, and many of the colour varieties have been given their own names. In fact there are no distinct colour forms, rather a continuum of variation . most of the variation concerns the mantle edge. Sometimes there are red spots as in your photo, sometimes there is a distinct submarginal band, and sometimes the white is absent, the red reticulate pattern running right to the golden yellow mantle edge.
Bill Rudman.
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