Elysia timida from Antibes, Mediterranean Sea
October 31, 2007
From: Dominique Horst
Hi Bill,
Not very frequent in our area, I think this is Elysia timida.
Not sure what timida means, but this one was crawling so fast, that it was hard to have a correct shot.
Locality: Antibes, 6m, France, Mediterranean sea, 20 October 2007. Length: 6 mm. Photographer: Dominique Horst.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Dom.
dominique.horst@wanadoo.fr
Horst, D., 2007 (Oct 31) Elysia timida from Antibes, Mediterranean Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20998Dear Dom,
The word timida means timid or fearful but I am not sure why it was used for this species. I sympathise with the apparent speed your animal was crawling. Small animals at high magnification seem to move much faster than larger ones, but its just that the background is magnified as well so they don't have to move very far to get out of your photo frame, or focus.
Elysia timida is a solar-powered species, and in the close-up I have included you can see the darker green specks which are chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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