Hermaea variopicta from NW Spain

March 9, 2007
From: Javier Santiago Caamaño

I photographed this nudibranch in Galicia, in the northwest Spain.

Locality: Ria de Muros, 7 metres, Galicia, NW Spain, Atlantic Ocean, August 2001, On a broken piece of laminarian alga. Length: 15 mm. Photographer: Javier Santiago Caamaño.

Can you help me to identify the species?
Thank you very much.

Javier Santiago Caamaño

javisan@edu.xunta.es

Caamaño, J.S., 2007 (Mar 9) Hermaea variopicta from NW Spain. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19629

Dear Javier,

Although this looks like a carnivorous aeolid nudibranch, it is in fact the herbivorous sacoglossan sea slug, Hermaea variopicta. Have a look at the Fact Sheet and earlier messages for more information on this species.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Mar 9). Comment on Hermaea variopicta from NW Spain by Javier Santiago Caamaño. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19629

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