Eggs of Chelidonura flavolabata
March 29, 2007
From: Lior Harari
Dear Bill,
I took the pictures of these two Chelidonura flavolobata at the same spot, both on the same small piece of coral.
Only when I looked at the pictures at home I realized that the second one has a small pile of eggs next to it.
Locality: Princess beach, Eilat, 20 meters, Israel, Red Sea, 16 March 2007. Photographer: Lior Harari.
Lior Harari
hararilior@yahoo.com
Harari, Lior, 2007 (Mar 29) Eggs of Chelidonura flavolabata. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19749Dear Lior,
Thanks for this. For those looking for the second animal that Lior has mentioned, it is only present in the second and third photos and is hidden between the 'tails' of the larger anterior animal. I presume this second animal is mating [as the male], because in aglajids the penis is on the right side of the head, and the female genital opening is in the reduced mantle cavity, which is at the back of the body, just in front of the V formed by the 'tails'.
I am pretty sure the eggs are present in both the lower photos, the bottom photo is 'upside down' in comparison with the middle photo, so the egg mass is just above, rather than just below, the animals. It is the type of egg mass produced by Chelidonura, but I can't say if these animals are the parents.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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