Re: Elysia sp. from Christmas Island

May 20, 2002
From: Skip Pierce

Your animal looks an awful-lot like (a dead) Elysia rufescens that I've collected in Hawaii - but I'm a cell biologist, so beware my identification.
Skip Pierce
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Biology
Univ. of South Florida

pierce@chuma1.cas.usf.edu

Pierce, S., 2002 (May 20) Re: Elysia sp. from Christmas Island. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7003

Thanks Skip,
Looking at Pease's original illustration and Carlson & Hoff's photo from Guam, which are already on the Forum, this animal from Christmas Is looks midway between them. Thanks for your rapid response - I don't like leaving photos on the 'unidentified pages' as they tend to get ignored. If you would like to contribute a short note to the Forum on your chloroplast symbiosis research and possible gene transfer in elysiids, it would be very welcome.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

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