Dendronotus rufus? from Alaska

December 5, 2006
From: Bradley Stevens

Here is a mating orgy of several Dendronotus rufus, on a piling in Women's Bay, Kodiak, Alaska, approx 20 feet deep.

Locality: Womens Bay, 20 ft, Kodiak, Alaska, USA, North Pacific, on wood piling. Photographer: Dr. Bradley Stevens.

Bradley Stevens

bstevens@umassd.edu

Stevens, B., 2006 (Dec 5) Dendronotus rufus? from Alaska. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18740

Hi Brad,

Thanks for this note. Interesting behavior, but I am not positive about your ID. I think we will ride with yours for now but this might be Dendronotus frondosus. And, the white specks suggest maybe even my Dendronotus sp. 1 bottom of page 95 in Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs.

Incidently a colleague at the LA County Museum is looking at the genus closely and needs specimens of these northern species. Is it possible to collect a few and drop them in 70% ethanol. Let me know

Thanks,
Dave Behrens

Behrens, D.W., 2006 (Dec 5). Comment on Dendronotus rufus? from Alaska by Bradley Stevens. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18740

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