Chromodoris willani feeding in Sulawesi?

November 29, 2006
From: Mike Krampf


Dear Bill

I know you like examples of nudi's feeding and while I'm not certain these two certainly looked like they were dug in tight. The second photo is just a close-up of the sponge that it appeared they were feeding on.

Locality: Bangka Island, 30 ft, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Celebes Sea, 24 October 2006, Fringing reef. Length: 3 cm. Photographer: Mike Krampf

Hope this helps.
Mike

mtkrampf@yahoo.com

Krampf, M., 2006 (Nov 29) Chromodoris willani feeding in Sulawesi?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18592

Dear Mike,
Thanks for thinking of me. Yes I welcome photos of sea slugs 'doing things'. We still have a lot to learn about almost every species. Your photos certainly illustrate some of the difficulties we have in building up this type of information. The dark grey lumps are almost certainly the sponge food of these animals, but there is nothing very clear about them to positively identify them. I suspect they are a species of Semitaspongia on which this species feeds, the only clue apart from colour, are the raised bits all over the colony which could be fibre bundles as illustrated in an earlier message [message #16270 ].

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Nov 29). Comment on Chromodoris willani feeding in Sulawesi? by Mike Krampf. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18592

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