Aegires punctilucens from Norway

July 18, 2005
From: Bill Rudman

Jussi Evertsen has kindly sent me a larger scan of the photo of Aegires punctilucens that I mentioned earlier [message #14248] was on the website: Nudibranchia on the coast of central Norway.

Location: Kvenvær, Hitra [west coast of Norway] April 2001, found by Torkild Bakken  It is very well camouflaged amongst the sponge Leucosolenia botryoides. Photo: Jussi Evertsen.

It certainly has similarities to the photo of an animal from Sydney [message #14229]. For example, there is a symmetrical pattern of spaces, clear of tubercles, and the blue-green spots are surrounded by brownish yellow and black spots. In this animal the  scattered opaque white specks are clearly the same as the whitish glands in the Sydney animal.The right rhinophore seems to be developing a bifid tip.

Thanks Jussi,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Jul 18) Aegires punctilucens from Norway. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14270

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