Chelidonura from Sulawesi
March 4, 1999
From: Lindsay Warren
Dear Bill
Here is another unknown from Operation Wallacea finds in the Tukang Besi, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo by Adam Powell.
Length 6-7 mm. Jet black body covered with orange dots just visible to the naked eye. Between the orange dots were smaller blue pin
prick size dots visible under the microscope. The inside of the parapodia is dark orange / black and there is an ill defined orange margin along the tail. It was found in 5.4 m of water on the reef crest on sand and red algae.
Lindsay Warren.
100014.2112@compuserve.com
Warren, L., 1999 (Mar 4) Chelidonura from Sulawesi. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/635Lindsay,
This is a species of the aglajid genus Chelidonura but I don't recognise the species. At 6-7mm it is either a juvenile or a specimen of a small species which has not been seen before.
Bill Rudman.
