Trapania? from Tasmania

April 12, 2000
From: Nerida Wilson

Dear Bill,
I found this Trapania? species at Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia. It was only a few centimetres from a Trapania brunnea! It seems to have just a tiny dusting of orange on the appendages near its gills.

12 February 2000. 6.5m depth, 9mm. Temperate rocky reef

Nerida Wilson

nwilson@zen.uq.edu.au

Wilson, N., 2000 (Apr 12) Trapania? from Tasmania. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2223

Dear Nerida,
I suspect this is Trapania aureopunctata. The golden marks on the body are not that obvious. But it is of course possible that it is an undescribed species or perhaps Trapania rudmani from New Zealand, which is a translucent white with yellow bands along the edge of the four mantle processes.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Apr 12). Comment on Trapania? from Tasmania by Nerida Wilson. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2223

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