Re: Stylocheilus longicauda and eggs [1]

November 19, 2009
From: Denis Riek

Concerning message #14066:

Hi Bill,
Here are some images of a pair of Stylocheilus longicauda found on a rubber sandal, cast up onto Brunswick Heads beach, Northern New South Wales. Goose neck barnacles, bryozoans and patches of very short, green leafy algae were on the sandal. The obvious egg coils were the first thing I spotted and a closer inspection revealed the two slugs.

On observing the animals when placed back into water they exhibited the same behaviour that Mike Greenemeier reported. Bending in all directions while standing on their tail and feeding on the green algae on the surface of the sandal.

Locality: Brunswick Heads, Flotsam, Northern New South Wales, Pacific, 27 October 2009, Stranded on beach. Length: 40mm. Photographer: Denis Riek.

Cheers
Denis

dwriek@optusnet.com.au

Riek, D.W., 2009 (Nov 19) Re: Stylocheilus longicauda and eggs [1]. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22809

Dear Denis,

You seem to have a special skill at finding this interesting and rarely reported sea hare. These  animals are certainly much more mature than those in your earlier message [#22615] and I have no doubt that the egg strings belong to them.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (Nov 19). Comment on Re: Stylocheilus longicauda and eggs [1] by Denis Riek. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22809

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