Ancula pacifica mating

June 20, 2000
From: Bruce Wight


Hi Bill,
Glad you could use my photo that Dave sent you.  No "r" in my last name though, just "Wight".  Dave suggested I send you another photo, taken in Sept 1996 at San Clemente Island, of two animals of Ancula pacifica mating and with an eggmass.  My wife and I have see hundreds of these branchs in the waters off Southern California and they have always had the three distinctive stripes. 

Mike Miller uses them every now and again for his Slug Site.  See our latest at http://siolibrary.ucsd.edu/slugsite/nudwk188.htm.
Take care,
Bruce Wight

bwproductions@earthlink.net

Wight, B, 2000 (Jun 20) Ancula pacifica mating. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2600

Dear Bruce,
Thanks for the interesting photos. Sorry we got your name wrong. I'm seriously thinking of separating the different colour forms of Ancula on to separate pages so these beautiful photos aren't hidden. Do we know what this animal eats. It would be nice to have a photo of it feeding or on its food.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Jun 20). Comment on Ancula pacifica mating by Bruce Wight. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2600

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