Elysia sp. 11 from Papua New Guinea
December 18, 2001
From: Mary Jane Adams
Hi Bill,
I found this Elysia sp. 11 on a divesite called "Lillian's Patch" in Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea [October 2001]. From your website it appears that this slug lives all over the Indo-Pacific. Isn't it about time somebody gave the poor beast a proper name? With so many undescribed Elysia species it seems like a good subject for somebody's PhD project.
Length: 25 mm
Depth: 15 meters
Best regards,
Mary Jane
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Adams, M.J., 2001 (Dec 18) Elysia sp. 11 from Papua New Guinea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5815Dear Mary Jane,
I think untangling the Elysias would keep an army of Ph D students occupied. It seems to me that this is a group where an understanding of their food and their reproductive strategy (direct development, planktotrophic larvae etc) as well as the normal colour and morphological characters, will be needed to make sense of the variety and similarity we find. And of course to check up all previous descritptions they will need a good library and the ability to read 5-6 languages.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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