Glossodoris cruenta with inverted gills

December 8, 2001
From: Michael D. Miller

Dear Bill
here is another image for your strange and bizarre list!

Location: Batangas, Philippines
Date: March, 1995
Photographer: Michael Miller

Cheers;
Michael D. Miller

mdmiller@cts.com

Miller, M.D., 2001 (Dec 8) Glossodoris cruenta with inverted gills. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5784

Thanks Michael,
This is like Scott Johnson's photo of a Chromodoris geometrica. As I mentioned with Scott's message, Charles Eliot described a specimen of Hypselodoris infucata as a new species and genus, Chromodoridella mirabilis Eliot 1905, because it had the gills attached like this below the mantle edge. It's certainly interesting to see how some of these abnormalities are apparently occurring across a number of species, suggesting a common developmental error.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Dec 8). Comment on Glossodoris cruenta with inverted gills by Michael D. Miller. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5784

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