Nembrotha mullineri from Indonesia
June 13, 2002
From: Anne Owen
I have just visited your website for the first time, following a recommendation from Scott Michael - it's great and I'm pleased to have found you!
Could you help ID this nudi please. It was found at about 30-40 feet inshore in Horseshoe Bay, Rinja, Komodo National Park, May, 2002. Not a good image as it was wrapped around a colonial ascidian and I declined to disturb it. Looks much like Nembrotha, but interesting deep red instead of more normal green
Hope you can help.
Anne Owen
AnneOwen2000@aol.com
Owen, A., 2002 (Jun 13) Nembrotha mullineri from Indonesia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7202Dear Anne,
This is indeed a species of Nembrotha, in this case Nembrotha mullineri. By co-incidence we have just had a number of messages showing the considerable colour variation in this species. I guess if it was wrapped around a colonial ascidian, as you report, it was eating it. Species of Nembrotha feed on specific ascidians. If you have a look at the page on the green Nembrotha milleri you will find quite a few photos of it feeding on ascidians. However there is some doubt about the food of this species and I am not sure from your photo just what it is on. Have you a photo which shows the 'ascidian' more clearly? Even it is not a good photo of the slug, it would be interesting to be able to identify what it is on.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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