Dondice occidentalis feeding

March 22, 2004
From: Marina Poddubetskaia


Dear Bill,
To accompany my message [12420] about finding Dondice occidentalis in the Southern Bahamas, here is a photo which looks like a feeding record. What do you think about it?

Date: February 02, 2004
Location: Great Exuma, Bahamas, Western Atlantic
Site : Stocking Island, Hole n°2
Depth: 4m
Size: about 30mm
Photos: Marina Poddubetskaia - Nembro website

Cheers,
Marina.

nembro@nembro.info

Marina Poddubetskaia , M., 2004 (Mar 22) Dondice occidentalis feeding. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/12498

Dear Marina,
It certainly looks like it is eating these polyps. What I can't quite make out from your photos is whether these polyps are of a brown anemone or of a large solitary hydroid like Ralpharia or Tubularia. Can you remember if they were on a long stalk? I suspect the polyp is a large solitary hydroid because anemone-feeding aeolids usually belong to the family Aeolidiidae, but I guess there can always be exceptions
Best wishes
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2004 (Mar 22). Comment on Dondice occidentalis feeding by Marina Poddubetskaia . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/12498

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