Tritoniopsis elegans - hitchhiker
July 31, 2001
From: Tom O'Toole
Hello-
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before but we have been seeing this critter popping up from time to time with shipments out of the indo-pacific.
I believe it is possibly Tritoniopsis elegans but I'm not sure. It is definitely a Tritoniid.
Tom O'Toole
Inland Reef Aquaria
Nashua, NH 03060, USA
tom@inlandreef.com
O'Toole, T., 2001 (Jul 31) Tritoniopsis elegans - hitchhiker. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4963
Dear Tom,
Thanks for the photos. If you have a look at the other messages on this page (just scroll up and down) you will see that this species is quite a common hitchhiker. It feeds on large massive softcorals such as Lobophyton so I guess it is being picked up as a juvenile on colonies of the soft corals and also on 'live rock' which has small attached softcoral colonies. Hopefully your customers will find the nudibranch more beautiful than the softcoral, as it gradually eats it.
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Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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