Flabellina babai from Turkey

June 11, 2002
From: Baki Yokes

Dear Bill,
Here is another Mediterranean Flabellina for the Forum. We observed approximately 20 specimens on the same rock, probably gathered for mating. On the upper right corner of one of the photos the egg mass is seen. Unfortunately this was the end of the film, so that I couldn't have a chance to take a full picture of the egg coil. This species is observed all throughout the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey, but mostly at winter times.

Place: Antalya, Turkey
Dive site: Uc Adalar
Date: 3 May 2002
Depth: 24m, Water temp: 18C
Photos taken by Baki Yokes

Best regards
Baki

bakiyokes@turk.net

Yokes, B., 2002 (Jun 11) Flabellina babai from Turkey. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7165

Dear Baki,
Thanks for another interesting record. I didn't realise how prominent the mantle edge is in Flabellina babai in this species, forming a distinctive ridge on each side between the ceratal clusters. I also suspect this has only been recorded from the western end of the Mediterranean previously so it will be interesting to hear from colleagues familiar with the Mediterranean fauna.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (Jun 11). Comment on Flabellina babai from Turkey by Baki Yokes. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7165

Factsheet

Flabellina babai

Related messages

  1. Flabellina babai and egg mass
    From: Dominique Horst, June 26, 2007
  2. Flabellina babai from Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy
    From: Paolo G. Albano, June 21, 2006
  3. Flabellina babai from Croatia
    From: Andrej Jaklin, April 14, 2006
  4. Re: Flabellina babai from southern Italy
    From: Juan Lucas Cervera, February 14, 2006
  5. Flabellina babai from southern Italy
    From: Gennaro Ciavarella, February 13, 2006
  6. Flabellina babai from Portugal
    From: David Abecasis, September 8, 2005
  7. Flabellina babai and egg mass
    From: Joao Pedro Tojal Loia Soares Silva, August 28, 2003
  8. Re: Flabellina babai from Senegal
    From: Juan Lucas Cervera, April 5, 2003
  9. Flabellina babai from Senegal
    From: Marina Poddubetskaia, April 3, 2003
  10. Flabellina babai? from Turkey
    From: Ferda Buyukbaykal, January 24, 2003
  11. Re: Flabellina babai? from Portugal
    From: Joao Pedro Tojal Silva, September 26, 2002
  12. Re: Flabellina babai? from Portugal
    From: Juan Lucas Cervera, September 26, 2002
  13. Flabellina babai? from Portugal
    From: Joao Pedro Tojal Silva, September 25, 2002
  14. Flabellina babai from the Mediterranean
    From: Marina Poddubetskaia, July 26, 2002
  15. Re: Flabellina babai from Turkey
    From: Juan Lucas Cervera, June 14, 2002

Show factsheet and all related messages