small blue dorid from Japan
January 3, 2000
From: Satoru Hori
Dear Bill
I found this seaslug at Miura peninshula,
Yokosuka city, Japan.
This slug's image is located on the following URL:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~IK8S-HR/image/umiushi/umiphoto/u_blue2.jpg
It was on the rock coverd with seaweed in the rocky beach on 29th Dec 1999.
Length :5mm, Depth: intertidal
Could you identify this?
Satoru
ik8s-hr@asahi-net.or.jp
Hori, S., 2000 (Jan 3) small blue dorid from Japan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1720Dear Satoru,
I think your animal is Doriopsis pecten. It is similar in shape to Doriopsis granulosa and I will put some pictures of it on the Forum when I return to Australia in two weeks.
One good way of identifying species of Doriopsis from their external appearance is to look at the gills. In Doriopsis they do not form a circle like in most dorids but are arranged in a transverse line across the back of the animal, each gill pointing backwards.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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