Ceratosoma brevicaudatum from Western Australia
January 30, 2007
From: Bruce Potter
Dear Bill,
Over the past couple of years I saw plenty of Ceratosoma brevicaudatum in Nelson Bay, New South Wales. They were usually quite large and pale in colour. I have now moved over to Western Australia and over the year end I dived under the Busselton jetty, where I saw lots of C. brevicaudatum but they were smaller and much more colourful than the ones I saw on the east coast.
Locality: Busselton, 8 metres, Western Australia, Indian Ocean, 6 January 2007, under a jetty. Length: 55 mm. Photographer: Bruce Potter.
This one was about 55 mm long.
Regards
Bruce Potter.
bandppotter@bigpond.com
Potter, B., 2007 (Jan 30) Ceratosoma brevicaudatum from Western Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19241Dear Bruce,
For some reason, C. brevicaudatum in New South Wales is always quite pale, although there is quite a range in color. Certainly in South Australia and apparently right around the southern coast of Asutralia to southern Western Australia the colours become much more intense. I have no idea why.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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