Two-gilled Slug?

December 1, 2006
From: Joy D. Go

Dear Bill,

A friend referred me to your site. Can you please help me identify the slug on this photo that I took a week ago? It seems to have two gills.

Locality: Baul Island, Guiuan, 10-15 meters, Philippines, Leyte Gulf, 21 November 2006, Wall. Length: Approximately 1.5 to 2 inches. Photographer: Joy D. Go.

I haven't found this on any of my references, so any help in identification would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Joy D. Go

joygo8@gmail.com

Go, J.D., 2006 (Dec 1) Two-gilled Slug?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18711

Dear Joy,
This is unnamed species of Nembrotha which I am clustering with a number of similarly coloured  red/orange-spotted species. Yours is almost certainly the one in  a recent message [#18238] which has 3 large branched gills. Your animal, apparently with only 2 gills, is either damaged, or one of its gills is obscured in your photo.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Dec 1). Comment on Two-gilled Slug? by Joy D. Go. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18711

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