Hypselodoris from South Africa

September 28, 2005
From: Colin Ogden

Note: this is part of another message [#14837] which I have duplicated because it contained two species

Hi Bill,
.... this photo was taken in a rock pool at low tide by Jesse, one of our local non divers who has developed a huge love for nudibranchs and other slugs and spends his free time looking in all the rock pools.

Locality: Sodwana Bay, South Africa, Indian Ocean coast. Length: approx 25 mm. August 2005. Coral reef. Photographer: Jesse

Colin Ogden

scubaco@iafrica.com

Ogden C. M., 2005 (Sep 28) Hypselodoris from South Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14850

Dear Colin,
This is an animal I am calling Hypselodoris cf. maculosa. It has similarities in colour and mantle gland arrangement to H. maculosa but in other ways looks very similar to two Hawaiian endemic species, H. peasei and H. bertschi. I can't say much more other than I think this is the first record of it from your side of the Indian Ocean. We really need to know something about its anatomy.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Sep 28). Comment on Hypselodoris from South Africa by Colin Ogden. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14850

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