Cephalaspid ? from Lastovo, Croatia

May 5, 2010
From: Roman Luštrik


Can someone ID this one? Photographed during a night dive.

Locality: Lastovo, 20 m, Croatia, Adriatic sea (Mediterranean), 28 April 2010, boulder. Length: 50 mm. Photographer: Marko Gaspari?.

Roman Luštrik

roman.lustrik@gmail.com

Luštirk, R., 2010 (May 5) Cephalaspid ? from Lastovo, Croatia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/23610

Dear Roman,

Although its large colourful body certainly suggests this could be a primitive sea slug, your animal is in fact a colourful marine snail of the family Naticidae. I am not an expert on these animals but it looks like it could be
Notocochlis dillwynii. [see http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01770p040.pdf]

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2010 (May 5). Comment on Cephalaspid ? from Lastovo, Croatia by Roman Luštrik. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/23610

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