Flabellina riwo from Papua New Guinea

July 15, 1999
From: Grey McNeil

Dear Bill,
Could you identify this photo please. The details are:
RASCHS REEF, MADANG, Papua New Guinea, 7m, December 1998, 1cm long alive.

Thanks,

Grey McNeil.

GREYMACIND@bigpond.com.au

McNeil, G., 1999 (Jul 15) Flabellina riwo from Papua New Guinea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1002

Dear Grey,
This is Flabellina riwo. Not a lot to say about it except that it seems to be one of the species of Flabellina with large flattened oral tentacles as in Flabellina bicolor, which tend to test the path as the slug moves along by 'flapping' the paddle-like tentacles on the substrate.

Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 1999 (Jul 15). Comment on Flabellina riwo from Papua New Guinea by Grey McNeil. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1002

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