Chromodoris hamiltoni from South Africa

May 21, 2002
From: Linda Penny

Dear Bill,
Firstly, thank you so much for an excellent site. Being a novice photographer and nudibranch enthusiast, your site has been invaluable in identifying our finds. This nudibranch however has us stumped. It is photographed quite often in South African waters off Sodwana and slightly higher in Mozambique and looks like a Chromodoris elisabethina but our one always has a double white marking down the back. I also thought it might be Chromodoris annae but again, the white marks are missing. I would appreciate your expertise.

Many Thanks
Linda

lindapenny@netactive.co.za

Penny, L., 2002 (May 21) Chromodoris hamiltoni from South Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6965

Dear Linda,
This is Chromdoris hamiltoni which at present is known only from the western Indian Ocean. In another message on the Forum today I discuss the dangers of mixing sea slugs and large anemones in aquaria and mention I lost a new species down the stomach of an anemone. It was in fact the first specimen I found of Chromodoris hamiltoni.

I would be happy to hear of any intersting finds and observations you make, even of animals you have been able to identify. In science, a second or third sighting of something is not 'old news' but valuable confirmation of earlier information.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (May 21). Comment on Chromodoris hamiltoni from South Africa by Linda Penny. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6965

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