First sighting of Doris ocelligera in the UK
August 21, 2009
From: David Kipling
Concerning message #21978:
Dear Bill,
Here is a picture of Doris ocelligera that Sarah and I saw in Cornwall in 2003. It has only recently been identified (by Bernard Picton), and until then had been languishing in a section of our digital picture archive labeled "we don't know what this is"!
Locality: Wreck of the Alice Marie, Mount's Bay, Penzance, 25 m, Cornwall, United Kingdom, Atlantic, 25 June 2003, Wreck covered with weed and short animal turf on sandy seabed. Photographer: David Kipling.
We saw two additional specimens the following year slightly east of this location, which I will submit in a second post [message #22612].
Best regards
David Kipling
Cardiff, UK
plankton@dircon.co.uk
Kipling, D., 2009 (Aug 21) First sighting of Doris ocelligera in the UK. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22611Dear David,
I have just received a message from Julia Nunn [#22598] with a record of this species from Devon in May 2004. As I note in her message, it is very valuable to get three separate observations like this. It certainly appears to be more than a single strange event.
With records from the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal (Cervera et al, 2006), this increases its known distribution as far north as the UK.
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Cervera, J. L., Calado, G., Gavaia, C., Malaquias, M. A. E., Templado, J., Ballesteros, M., Garcia-Gomez, J. C., & Megina, C. (2006) An annotated and updated checklist of the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Spain and Portugal (including islands and archipelagos). Boletin Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia 20: 1-122.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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