Hypselodoris kanga from Singapore
January 30, 2003
From: Ria Tan
Dear Dr Rudman,
Firstly, I must say how wonderful I think your site is. It provides so much information and such stunning photos of these delightful creatures. My name is Ria Tan from Singapore and I am a volunteer nature guide at Chek Jawa, an intertidal flat that was nearly lost to reclamation.
Fortunately, the government decided to defer reclamation for 10 years after widespread appeals from the public to preserve this unique habitat. For more information on Chek Jawa, do visit http://chekjawa.nus.edu.sg.
Since the deferment, I and other volunteers have been working hard to produce a guidebook for visitors to Chek Jawa. Hopefully you will be able to help us identify some of the beautiful slugs that we commonly find on Chek Jawa. These IDs will then be included in our book so the children will have a better understanding of these creatures. In this way, we can work towards preserving Chek Jawa forever. If you could help me with the IDs, I would be most grateful. Any interesting information on each of these creatures would also help the kids feel a stronger connection to them and to the need to preserve Chek Jawa.
All these creatures were found on the intertidal zone that is exposed at low spring tide. Photo: Alan Yeo
Looking forward to a reply.
Thank you!
Ria.
tanria@singnet.com.sg
Tan, R., 2003 (Jan 30) Hypselodoris kanga from Singapore. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9035Dear Ria,
I am happy to help your project. In return we get some interesting infpormation on the sea slug fauna of Singapore. This beautiful animal is Hypselodoris kanga, one of a large family [Chromodorididae] of colourful sponge-feeding nudibranchs. This species has been found from east Africa across to Malayisa and Papua New Guinea. If you look at the ther messages on this page you will see it has some variability in colour, but in all cases it has the characteristic yellow spots on the gills. I first found this species in Tanzania, and its species name 'kanga' is from the name of the colourful cotton cloth, used by the women in East Africa, for clothing.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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