Re: Hypselodoris cf. maculosa from Sth Africa

December 15, 1999
From: Terry Gosliner

Dear Bill.
The Hypselodoris that you posted this morning looks to me like H. maculosa. We have found some Indian Ocean specimens with purple spots. They do not differ internally from typical H. maculosa.

Best wishes,
Terry.

tgosline@calacademy.org

Gosliner, T., 1999 (Dec 15) Re: Hypselodoris cf. maculosa from Sth Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1679

Thanks Terry,
It was the prominence of the purple spots which puzzled me but I agree that the most likely bet is that it is a colour form of H. maculosa.

Here is a photo of an animal I found in Tanzania [Mbudya Is, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, November 20 1976, 18mm long alive] which looks more like the western Pacific colour than Valda's Sth African animal.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 1999 (Dec 15). Comment on Re: Hypselodoris cf. maculosa from Sth Africa by Terry Gosliner. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1679

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