Palisa sp. from Lizard Island, Australia

January 9, 2007
From: Nils Anthes


Concerning message #13531:

Dear Bill and Julie,

I just happened to bump into Julie Marshall's pictures of Palisa sp. from Heron Island, realising that we have found presumably the same species previously on Lizard Island. I attach some pictures, showing both the whole animal as well as details of the rhinophores with the distinct papillae on the posterior side. Even more pronounced, the cerata are arranged in distinct arches The animal was sitting in dense algal mats on sandy Casuarina Beach.

Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, 3m, Queensland, Australia, Pacific Ocean, 18 December 2003, algae on sand. Length: 7mm. Photographer: Nils Anthes.

There is a photo of it as 'Aeolid sp'. in:

  • Wägele, H., I. Burghardt, N. Anthes, J. Evertsen, A. Klussmann-Kolb & G. Brodie (2006): Species diversity of Opisthobranch Molluscs from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Suppl. 69: 33-60.


Regards
Nils

nils.anthes@uni-tuebingen.de

Anthes, N., 2007 (Jan 9) Palisa sp. from Lizard Island, Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19157

Thanks Nils,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Jan 9). Comment on Palisa sp. from Lizard Island, Australia by Nils Anthes. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19157

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