Re: Chromodoris from the Philippines

October 7, 2009
From: Franca Wermuth

Concerning message #4636:

Dear Bill
Does this nudibranch belong to Chromodoris cf. hintuanensis, too?

Locality: Romblon, Philippines, South China Sea, 16 April 2009. Photographer: Franca Wermuth

Thanks in advance
Franca

franca.wermuth@gmx.ch

Wermuth, F., 2009 (Oct 7) Re: Chromodoris from the Philippines. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22578

Dear Franca,

Yes this appears to be the same species. It's nice to get a photo which shows the rhinophores and gills more clearly than the earlier photo. They are both edged with white with no sign of the purple seen in C. hintuanensis. Also the gills of C. hintuanensis are triangular in cross-section while in your animal the gills are simple in construction.

I am sure now that it is not just a colour form of C. hintuanensis.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (Oct 7). Comment on Re: Chromodoris from the Philippines by Franca Wermuth. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22578

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