Re: Nudi in a Bubble
April 19, 2010
From: Tony Wu
Concerning message #23512:
Hi Bill,
I read your note on the forum. For what it's worth, I looked through my other photos, and it doesn't appear as if the eggs are strung together like nudibranch eggs. For reference, here is a crop at 100% view:
And here is another one (also at 100% magnification), with the white eggs that I think belong to the nudibranch included for comparison:
If these photos help you in any way, please feel free to use them. Or let me know if there's anything else that might be useful.
Cheers,
Tony
tony@tony-wu.com
Wu, T., 2010 (Apr 19) Re: Nudi in a Bubble. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/23517Dear Tony,
Thanks for your quick response. The lack of a 'string' linking the eggs together suggest a polychaete to me but Cory Pittman's observations [message #21552] showing that some cephalaspideans, like Atys sp. and Diniatys sp. have randomly arranged eggs, make a simple answer difficult.
Concerning the ownership of the larger white eggs in strings. Although we don't seem to have direct evidence, I noticed similar strings in an earlier message [#22593], and like you I am pretty sure they belong to the aeolid.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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