Spotted Rostanga pulchra from Point Lobos, CA
February 7, 2007
From: Clinton Bauder
Hi Bill,
Was out branching at Point Lobos last week and we found quite a few of the spotted form of Rostanga pulchra. Usually the ones we find in central California don't have the dark spots.
Picture is by my friend Mike Jimenez.
Locality: Point Lobos, 10 meters, California, USA, Pacific, 01 February 2007, Rocky Reef. Length: 10mm. Photographer: Michael Jimenez.
Clinton
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2007 (Feb 7) Spotted Rostanga pulchra from Point Lobos, CA. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19403Hi Clinton,
I like to call this the salt and pepper form of Rostanga pulchra. Actually I find that specimens with some degree of specking (black or white of the notal surface) are more common that the pure red variant. For some reason I seem to remember the red variant more common feeding on intertidal sponges, and the speckled variants feeding subtidally.
Thanks for the great observation,
Dave Behrens
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