Flabellina bicolor from Lembeh St, Indonesia

January 12, 2006
From: Ken Tucker

Dear Bill,
I have not been able to match to either SS database or any other reference material. I have numerous photos. Can you suggest?

I suspect it is some sort of worm instead.

Locality: Reef. Indonesia, Lembeh Strait. Depth: perhaps 30-40 ft. 5 Nov 2005. Photographer: Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker

ken@kilili.com

Tucker, K.C, 2006 (Jan 12) Flabellina bicolor from Lembeh St, Indonesia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15521

Dear Ken,
Although it does look a bit like a polychaete worm, this is the aeolid Flabellina bicolor. Your photo shows how the two oral tentacles, at the front of the body, flatten out to form two paddle-shaped structures which wave up and down as the animal is crawling along.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jan 12). Comment on Flabellina bicolor from Lembeh St, Indonesia by Ken Tucker. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15521

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