Juvenile Phyllodesmium rudmani from Red Sea

March 3, 2008
From: Michael Henke

Sorry Bill,
The subject must be for you like: "The world is a disk", but maybe it's true and than it is interesting for you. I only have this one bad picture, but one bad is better than none.

Locality: Mangrov Bay, 8 m, Egypt, Red Sea, 13.11.07, Xenia umbellata. Length: 4 mm. Photographer: Michael Henke.

Regards
Michael

henke@seddoc.de

Henke, M., 2008 (Mar 3) Juvenile Phyllodesmium rudmani from Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21200

Dear Michael,

Certainly the one just left of centre in your photo looks like the head of an aeolid with long slender rhinophores and a large eye, but I am afraid the 'fringe' of little tentacles around the front end show it isn't an aeolid. My guess is that the 'eye' spot is just a dark spot and these little objects are small sea anemones. Unfortunately when you only have photographs to examine you cant give mysterious objects a gentle little poke to see what they will do - or how they crawl.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Mar 3). Comment on Juvenile Phyllodesmium rudmani from Red Sea by Michael Henke. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21200

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