Facelina auriculata from Cork, Ireland

June 15, 2006
From: Jamie Malone

Dear Bill

Here is another one I can't identify.

Locality: Fastnet Light house , 6 metres, west Cork , Fastnet, Ireland. 04 June 2006, rocky shore line . Length: 40 mm. Photographer: Jamie Malone .

Jamie Malone

malonejamie@hotmail.com

Malone, J., 2006 (Jun 15) Facelina auriculata from Cork, Ireland. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16842

Dear Jamie,

This is the same aeolid,  Facelina auriculata, which I indentified for you in an earlier message [#16497]. This one is a bit more typical in its colour pattern with distinctive blue streaks down the cerata. It is eating the same hydroid, Tubularia, in this message, but seems to have had a bigger impact on the colony, with few hydroid polyps remaining.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jun 15). Comment on Facelina auriculata from Cork, Ireland by Jamie Malone . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16842

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