Cuthona divae with eggs [1]
July 25, 2007
From: Jackie Hildering
Both dives today allowed me to find Cuthona divae with eggs. But eggs are different. Here is a photo of eggs from "Bob's Spot" site. the animals were on barnacle fur hydroids (Hydractinia).
Locality: Bob's Spot +/-40 feet, British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Ocean, 28 April 2007, Wall. Length: 3 cm . Photographer: Jackie Hildering.
[see #20145 as well for second egg type]
Jackie Hildering
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Hildering, Jackie, 2007 (Jul 25) Cuthona divae with eggs [1]. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20138
Hi Jackie,
Not sure what to tell you on this one. Cuthona's lay nice neat coiled egg ribbons. Between your two messages you have documented two distinctly different egg masses on two different hydroid species. . This one seems to be a cylindrical coil while in the other message the egg mass is a flattened ribbon with vertical rows stacked in. Since I have not seen documentation on the morphology Cuthona divae's eggs, I can't really say whose these are.
My best shot,
Dave Behrens
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