Flabellina verrucosa from Massachusetts
June 22, 2002
From: Paul Young
My wife and I were diving at Back Beach in Rockport, Massachusetts. We found this critter in about 15' of water. My wife, Charlotte Richardson, photographed this animal. We think it is another Coryphella. It is about 15mm long.
On the same dive we saw another aeolid, a Doto and several Onchidoris muricata, locally called "little white dorid". But our photos of them were not as good as the ones I sent you last year. Not bad for a dive in a spot which is usually used primarily for training dives.
Photo by Charlotte Richardson
Paul
young@underwater.org
Young, P. , 2002 (Jun 22) Flabellina verrucosa from Massachusetts. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7290Dear Paul,
This is Flabellina verrucosa, about which we've already
said most things. This individual shows two of the features which I think are diagnostic for this species: the white line along the tail extending amongst the last few cerata and the narrow white line on the dorsal side of the oral tentacles.
Bernard Picton
bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk
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