Halgerda punctata from South Africa
July 20, 1999
From: Ernest C.J. Seamark
Note added 7 January 2004. This is almost certainly a form of H. wasinensis. See relevant discussion.
Dear Bill
This individual was collected 17 September 1997, from Treasure Beach intertidal area, South Africa. One other was found but specimen was lost whilst trying to collect.
[Treasure Beach is in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.]
Ernest Seamark
kearneyt@biology.und.ac.za
Seamark, E. C. J., 1999 (Jul 20) Halgerda punctata from South Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1044Dear Ernest,
It certainly matches an animal from Zanzibar that I identified with H. punctata but there is still some doubt about the actual identity of Farran's species.
If you find some more specimens they would be worth keeping.
Reference: Rudman, W.B. (1978) The dorid opisthobranch genera Halgerda and Sclerodoris from the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 59-88.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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