Berghia verrucicornis from French Mediterranean

July 8, 2006
From: Marina Poddubetskaia Ossokine

Dear Bill,

Here is a photo of Berghia verrucicornis from the Mediterranean coast of France.  I saw many specimens of this species in Arcachon Basin, in Senegal and now in the Mediterranean. And all of them seem to be completely identical externally.

Locality: 'La digue', Port-Leucate , 3 m, France, Mediterranean, 24 June 2006. Length: 16mm. Photographer: Marina Poddubetskaia Ossokine.

All the best,
Marina.
Nembro website

nembro@nembro.info

Poddubetskaia Ossokine, M., 2006 (Jul 8) Berghia verrucicornis from French Mediterranean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17029

Dear Marina,
Thanks you so much - at last a good photo of a 'typical' Berghia verrucicornis from the Mediterranean, where it was first described from. I really have no excuse now for not preparing a proper Fact Sheet for this species. As I have discussed before, Aeolidella stephanieae, the US aquarium animal which for so long was misidentified as B. verrucicornis, is obviously quite different.

I have included a close-up alongside as it shows the orange markings on the body as found in Trinchese's old paintings [message #3918 ]

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jul 8). Comment on Berghia verrucicornis from French Mediterranean by Marina Poddubetskaia Ossokine. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17029

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