Nembrotha kubaryana from the Great Barrier Reef
June 28, 2006
From: Paul Scrobohaci
Hello,
I shot this on Steve's Bommie, Great Barrier Reef this April 2006. To my (uneducated) eye it looked like a FAM Polyceridae SUBFAM Nembrothinae or a Chromodorididae.
I looked at all the specimens in those families/subfamilies on your site and could not find it. Could please help id it ?
Locality: Steve's Bommie/Great Barrier Reef, 10 meters, New South Wales, Australia, West Pacific/Corral Sea, 10 April 2006. Length: 30 mm. Photographer: Paul Scrobohaci.
Best Regards,
Paul Scrobohaci
paul_scrobohaci@yahoo.com
Scrobohaci, P.G., 2006 (Jun 28) Nembrotha kubaryana from the Great Barrier Reef. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17005Dear Paul,
It is a species of Nembrotha, N. kubaryana, which is quite variable in colour so trying to find an exact match to a photo on the Forum is quite difficult for this species. Your looks quite like another one from the Gt Barrier Reef in Rob Thyer's recent message #16869.
The green mass on the rock below the nudibranch looks very like the preferred food of this species, the ascidian Sigillina signifera.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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