Juvenile Verconia? from South Australia

January 30, 2000
From: Stuart Hutchison

Dear Bill,

Here is another one from Edithburgh, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, - Edithburgh Christmas last year - I think this 5mm long specimen may be a juvenile Verconis (common at Edithburgh). Only sighting in five years. Regards,
Stuart Hutchison

hutchco@tpg.com.au

Hutchison, S., 2000 (Jan 30) Juvenile Verconia? from South Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1759

Dear Stuart,
I think you are right in thinking this is a juvenile Verconia verconis. It starts life looking like a 'normal' chromodorid, and as it grows, each mantle gland at the edge of the mantle, begins to be carried out on the tip of a papilla, which gradually elongates until it reaches its remarkable adult shape.
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Jan 30). Comment on Juvenile Verconia? from South Australia by Stuart Hutchison. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1759

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