Flabellina bicolor from Bare Island, Sydney
November 23, 2006
From: Nicholas Missenden
Hello again Bill,
Hope you had a great holiday.. Anyway, I was diving yesterday on the South of Bare Island, Laperouse and came across this nudibranch.
Locality: Bare Island, South Wall, 15 m, NSW, Australia, Botany Bay, 20 November 2006, Broken reef, sandy bottom. Length: 2 cm. Photographer: Nicholas Missenden.
I thought that it was some form of Flabellina but I can't seem to find it in any of my reference books or on your forum. Could you help me identify it please?
Regards
Nick
njmpm@iinet.net.au
Missenden, N.J., 2006 (Nov 23) Flabellina bicolor from Bare Island, Sydney. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18485Dear Nick,
It is indeed a Flabellina - Flabellina bicolor. This is a rare tropical visitor to Sydney. It is apparently feasting on the colony of small hydroids it is crawling on - each of the white blobs is a small hydroid polyp.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
Related messages
-
Flabellina bicolor from Okha, Gulf of Kutch,India
From: Bhavik Patel, January 19, 2010 -
Flabellina bicolor (?) from Korea
From: Dong Bum Koh, February 25, 2008 -
Flabellina bicolor from South Africa
From: Valda Fraser, September 18, 2007 -
Flabellina bilas maybe? from the Red Sea
From: Oren Lederman, August 11, 2007 -
Flabellina bicolor feeding
From: Leanne & David Atkinson, January 26, 2007 -
Flabellina bicolor from Bali
From: Marli Wakeling, February 16, 2006 -
Flabellina bicolor from Lembeh St, Indonesia
From: Ken Tucker, January 12, 2006 -
Flabellina bicolor from the Red Sea
From: Binyamin Koretz, January 11, 2006 -
Flabellina bicolor from Japan
From: Jason Bell, December 20, 2003 -
Flabellina bicolor from Sth Korea
From: Dong Bum, Koh, December 21, 2002 -
Flabellina bicolor? from sthn Korea
From: Dong Bum, Koh, November 21, 2002 -
Flabellina bicolor from Hong Kong
From: Bernard Picton , January 26, 2002 -
Flabellina bicolor
From: Erwin Koehler, August 5, 2001 -
Flabellina bicolor from Hong Kong
From: Leslie Chan, July 21, 2001 -
Tonga Records: Flabellina bicolor
From: Don Barclay, May 29, 2001 -
Flabellina bilas? from Philippines
From: Erwin Koehler, February 16, 1999