Actinocyclus verrucosus from eastern Australia

August 4, 2005
From: Bill Rudman


Here is a photo of an Actinocyclus which I had previously identified on the Forum as Actinocyclus japonicus (Eliot, 1913), simply because that was the oldest name that I could positively identify it with. Many other authors had followed the same course of action. Valdes's review (2002) suggests there are two species in the Indo-West Pacific, and that this sparsely nodulose form can be identfied with Actinocyclus verrucosus Ehrenberg, 1831 from the Red Sea

Locality: Split Solitary Island, Coffs Harbour, nthn New South Wales, February, 1987. C152686. Photos: Bill Rudman [more detail to be added]

 Usually it is a darker colour than this and often has scattered  dark specks.

Best wishes
Bill Rudman

billr@seaslugforum.net

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Aug 4) Actinocyclus verrucosus from eastern Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14471

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