Melanistic Chromodoris hamiltoni
January 16, 2006
From: Colin Ogden
Hi Bill,
Welcome back and best wishes to you.
While you have been off line I have found a lot of nudis I cant id and have queries on, but have resisted flooding you with requests, but unfortunately I cant resist it any longer, so I will be passing them on at a slow rate. This one I found fairly close to a Chromodoris hamiltoni, but it is different enough to query. It was actually collected for our national parks display aquarium and then returned to the reef 4 days later.
Locality: Sodwana Bay, South Africa, Indian Ocean coast. Depth: 14 m. Length: 25 mm. Dec 2005. Coral reef. Photographer: Colin Ogden
Regards
Colin
scubaco@iafrica.com
Ogden C. M., 2006 (Jan 16) Melanistic Chromodoris hamiltoni. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15570Noted added 11 January 2007: This is most probably Hypselodoris regina. See message #19207.
Dear Colin,
It's a bit hard to be sure but I suspect it is either C. hamiltoni or C. quadricolor. In either case the black pigment is clearly in excess. I can see traces of blue in your photos so I don't think it is an unnamed black species.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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