Feeding Tambja tenuilineata in New Zealand

May 17, 2007
From: Samuel Kemp

Dear Bill

Thought you might like these pictures of various Tambja species feeding. The pictures were all taken whilst diving Middle Arch, Poor Knight's Islands, last weekend.

Locality: Middle Arch, Poor Knight's Islands, 10 m, New Zealand, Pacific, 04 February 2007. Photographer: Samuel Kemp.

Samuel Kemp

samuel_kemp@hotmail.com

Kemp, S.V., 2007 (May 17) Feeding Tambja tenuilineata in New Zealand. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19907

Dear Sam,

I have split your message into three, all of which show a different species of Tambja feeding on the blue plant-like bryozoan Bugula dentata. This one shows the recently named Tambja tenuilineata which used to be called Tambja sp. 1 on the Forum. I have been meaning to include this species on the Forum for some time but have been unable to get a copy of the original description. It was described in a journal called Vita Malacologica which is an occasional supplement of the journal Basteria. Institutional libraries seem to have great difficulty obtaining supplements like this and I am still waiting.

Your other two photos show Tambja verconis [message #19419] and Tambja morosa [message #19908]

Miller, M. C., & Haagh, J. M. (2005) A new species of the dorid nudibranch genus Tambja Burn, 1962 (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from Australasia. Vita Malacologica 3: 55-60.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (May 17). Comment on Feeding Tambja tenuilineata in New Zealand by Samuel Kemp. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19907

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