Notodoris serenae from Moyo Island, Indonesia

August 10, 2002
From: Walabha Sinbul

Dear Bill,
Please help me with the ID. I have no idea who this guy can be. He looks like a moose, I'd say.

Dive site: Moyo Island, Indonesia
Depth: 30ft.
Size: 5cm.
Activity: feeding on green algae

Thanks so much.
Walabha

walabha@clickta.com

Sinbul, W., 2002 (Aug 10) Notodoris serenae from Moyo Island, Indonesia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7712

Dear Walabha,
Certainly from the interesting angle you have photographed it, it does look like a moose! This is Notodoris serenae. You mention it was feeding on green algae. It may have been crawling over some green algae, or perhaps its sponge was a bit green in colour, but these animals feed on the calcareous sponge Leucetta [see Stuart Hutchison's message]. It is often easy to be tricked when watching animal behaviour - and it is often quite difficult to know just what an animal is actually feeding on. Even when you actually see an animal feeding it is often difficult to identify what the food is, and other times when you think an animal is feeding, it is just crawling over something
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W. B., 2002 (Aug 10). Comment on Notodoris serenae from Moyo Island, Indonesia by Walabha Sinbul. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7712

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