Noumea varians from Reunion Island

February 27, 2009
From: Sully Bachel

Hello Bill

Here is a Noumea varians moving on a sandy rock at cap La Houssaye, Réunion Island.

Locality: Cap la Houssaye, 9 m, Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, 22 November 2008. Length: 12 mm. Photographer: Sully Bachel.

Best regards
Sully Bachel

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s.bachel@orange.fr

Bachel, S., 2009 (Feb 27) Noumea varians from Reunion Island. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22257

Dear Sully,

Thanks for this photo which arrived fortuitously at the same time as Barbara Hanchard's photos [message #22276] of animal almost identical in shape and colour to your animal, but lacking a white median line. Your animal is definitely Noumea varians and I now consider Barbara Hanchard's to be Thorunna halourga [see message #22290]- but as I say in her message, the only way 100% sure way to identify this colour group of species is the dissect every specimen, which is an impossible task and rather self-defeating if you are studying their biology.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (Feb 27). Comment on Noumea varians from Reunion Island by Sully Bachel. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22257

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