Is this Halgerda malesso?
May 18, 2007
From: Mirjam Broos
Dear Bill,
Is this Halgerda malesso?
I think the forum is great and I appriciate your help very much. Identification is really hard for a beginner.
Locality: Paradise Jetty, Likupang, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 07 October 2006. Photographer: Geert Prast.
Mirjam Broos
mirjam.broos@planet.nl
Broos, M, 2007 (May 18) Is this Halgerda malesso?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19119Dear Mirjam,
Quite a few species of Halgerda have been described in recent years and it will take a while, as new colour forms and variations are found, to work our whether the 'new' species are all valid or whether a few modifications will need to be made. This is normal practice when a revision of a group occurs because it is almost ipossible to get it all right first time around. Your animal is similar to the one in Erwin Kodiat's recent message [#19588] which I have identified as Halgerda batangas, although in both that species and H. malesso the orange lines are supposed to form a network pattern rather than the parallel lines found in your animal.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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