Fryeria menindie and Fryeria picta

July 15, 2006
From: Asther M. Lau

Hello Bill,

I'm a little confused with the ID of this nudibranch. After browsing this forum, I've a feeling this is a Fryeria menindie. However, from another book source, it looked pretty similar to one Fryeria picta which I can't find any info from this forum.

Locality: Tenggol Island, 12 meters, Terengganu, Malaysia, South China Sea, 23 July 2004, Coral reef. Length: About 5cm. Photographer: Asther M. Lau.

Hope you can help me. Thank you.
Asther

asther@astherlau.com

Lau, A, 2006 (Jul 15) Fryeria menindie and Fryeria picta. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17119

Dear Asther,
I have been a bit slow following the Fryeria menindie - F. picta question up. Fryeria menindie (Brunckhorst, 1993) was considered by Yonow (1996) to be a junior synonym of Phyllidia picta Pruvot-Fol, which Yonow showed was in fact a species of Fryeria. I have moved animals previously identified as F. menindie on the Forum to a new Fryeria picta page.

For those of you who are interested, I am keeping archive copies of replaced Fact Sheets as pdf files, just in case someone needs to check a reference to an old citation. With search engines sneaking into all parts of websites, it would be confusing to keep these archives online, because they would start appearing in searches out of context, but if anyone has a real need for one, they are available on request

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jul 15). Comment on Fryeria menindie and Fryeria picta by Asther M. Lau. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17119

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