Haminoea cyanomarginata from Malta

July 21, 2007
From: Patricia Peels


Hi Bill

We've come across another seaslug we can not identify. Can you help us? It was sitting on a Codium bursa.

Locality: Cirkewwa, 25 m, Malta, Mediterranean, 19 July 2007. Length: 5 mm. Photographer: Patricia Peels.

Thank you and best regards,
Patricia & Gerard

gmpeels@nextgen.net.mt

Peels, P., 2007 (Jul 21) Haminoea cyanomarginata from Malta. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20260

Dear Patricia & Gerard,
This is an interesting find, and at 5 mm long, a tribute to your eyesight. It is Haminoea cyanomarginata which was first reported on the Forum from the Mediterranean four years ago [message #8770]. It was first described from the Sudanese coast of the Red Sea, and is what we call a Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean. It seems to be quite common in Turkey, and is known from Greece, so your find in Malta suggest it is continuing its move westward in the Mediterranean from the Suez Canal.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (Jul 21). Comment on Haminoea cyanomarginata from Malta by Patricia Peels. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/20260

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