Could this be Chromodoris africana?
November 13, 2003
From: Gary Cobb
Hi Bill!
Please find attached a photo I took while on a night dive here at Wait-a-while off Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia, 19 degree water, 14m depth, length about 70mm. "It" was quite large and beautiful! Could this be Chromodoris africana?
Thanks
Gary Cobb
gary@cobb.com.au
Cobb, G., 2003 (Nov 13) Could this be Chromodoris africana?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11348Dear Gary,
As far as we know C. africana is a western Indian Ocean species althought ther are some puzzling animals from the Pacific which I am calling Chromodoris cf. africana at present for want of a better idea. Your animal however is Chromodoris kuiteri. The black pigmentation on the inside edge of the orange mantle border is a good character for this species
Best wishes
Bill Rudman
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