Re: Hypselodoris rudmani from Sodwana Bay, Sth Africa

Dear Colin,
Often after new species are described there is what could be called a 'settling in' period when we begin to look more closely at similarly coloured animals and try and work out just how much colour variation there is in the new species. Often we have no information on the juveniles, which sometimes may just have some parts of the adult pattern. I guess this specimen and some of the others I have tentatively called H. rudmani fit into that scenario. I suspect this may be a juvenile H. rudmani but there is always the possibility that there are a group of similarly coloured species in southern Africa which we still have to sort out.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman