Aplysia cf. parvula (?) from the Red Sea

March 30, 2002
From: Dr. Jacob Dafni

Dear Dr. Rudman
Upon searching Aplysid pictures in your list, I found your identification of a dark specimen from the Philippines. The attached picture, taken at Eilat, Red Sea in 1997, seems to me of the same pattern. It was ca. 6 cm large.

Actually, A. parvula was recorded from the Red Sea [Dekker & Orlin (2000) checklist of Red Sea Mollusca. Spirula Newsletter, Vol 47 suppl.]

Dr. Jacob Dafni

jdafni@netvision.net.il

Dafni, J., 2002 (Mar 30) Aplysia cf. parvula (?) from the Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6538

Dear Jacob,
Yes this certainly looks like the species I have seen at odd times throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Considering how many names have been given to Sea Hares from this region I would be surprised if there isn't one to fit it, but I have not discovered it as yet.

True A. parvula has a circumtropical distribution and has been recorded from many parts of the Indo-West Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. It has been known from the northern Indian Ocean [Aden] from at least 1960 (Eales, 1960).
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (Mar 30). Comment on Aplysia cf. parvula (?) from the Red Sea by Dr. Jacob Dafni. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6538

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