Thorunna africana from the Red Sea
February 24, 2005
From: Oren Lederman
Hi Bill,
Here is a nudibranch I recently photographed at Eilat that I can't identify.
Locality: North beach, Eilat Bay, Israel, Red Sea.
Depth: ~20 meters. Length: ~1 cm. 18 Feb 2005. Photographer: Oren Lederman
Oren Lederman
lederman@bigmail.co.il
Lederman, O., 2005 (Feb 24) Thorunna africana from the Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13216Dear Oren,
This is an interesting find. To my knowledge this is only the third time that this species has been recorded. It is Thorunna africana, which I named some years ago from specimens from Tanzania and the Sudanese Red Sea. Species of Thorunna are quite small, for chromodorids, and one characteristic feature is that the gills are held upright in a goblet-shaped group, and they wave rhythmically as the animal crawls along.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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