Re: Cratena peregrina from India

November 3, 2009
From: Vishal Bhave

Dear Bill

The day before finding the Elysia [see message #22738] I found this Cratena peregrina - like species on a hydroid

Locality: Bhandarpule, Maharashtra, India. October 2009

Vishal Bhave.

vishalbhave@gmail.com

Bhave, V., 2009 (Nov 3) Re: Cratena peregrina from India. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22754

Dear Vishal,

If I had just seen this photo I would have put it aside as a 'mystery' but a recent post from Deepak Apte [message #22690] with a group of animals from Mumbai, which I am pretty sure are the Mediterranean Cratena peregrina, suggests that your animal is the same species.

In typically coloured animals, there are two large orange bands on the head, one between each rhinophore and oral tentacle. We can only see the left band in your animal and its seems to have a side branch. - perhaps this is just a peculiarity of this specimen. In all other features it matches Deepak's animals so I tentatively suggest it is also C. peregrina.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (Nov 3). Comment on Re: Cratena peregrina from India by Vishal Bhave. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22754

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