Unidentified aeolidiid again
February 9, 2008
From: Jose Victor Santos
We found this slug at Dos Palmas Resort, Honday Bay, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. Three of them found at depth of 30-40 ft feeding on an Anemone as shown in the pictures.
Locality: Dos Palmas Resort, Honday Bay, 30-40ft, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, 20 October 2007, Sandy. Length: 2-3 inches. Photographer: Jose Victor Santos.
Jose Victor " Jovic" Santos
splashuwimaging@gmail.com
Santos, J.V.R., 2008 (Feb 9) Unidentified aeolidiid again. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21026
Dear Jovic,
This is a nudibranch I have been calling Unknown aeolidiid sp 2 because I am pretty sure from its shape that it belongs to the family Aeolidiidae, but I am also pretty sure it is unnamed.
I am interested in your photo of it feeding. Have you a better photo of the 'anemone' it is on. Why I ask is that its shape looks more like a soft coral than a sea anemone, and when I try and count the number of tentacles on each polyp there seem to be eight, which would make it a soft coral, rather than six, which sea anemones have. It may not seem important to know which, but species of the aeolidiidae usually feed on sea anemones so it would be most unusual to find one on a soft coral
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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