Bullina from Reunion Island

February 8, 2008
From: Hugues Flodrops


Dear Bill,
Can you help me once again. I found this Bullina by night. It looks quite like Bullina lineata or B. oblonga but without blue ring around mantle. The colour markings on the shell are also different with one red central spiral.

Locality: Etang-Salé, 1 metre, Reunion Island, Indian Ocean, 28 November 2007, Night. Length: 15 mm. Photographer: Hugues Flodrops.

Thanks and regards.
Hugues

hugues.flodrops@wanadoo.fr

Flodrops, H., 2008 (Feb 8) Bullina from Reunion Island . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21238

Dear Hugues,

It certainly doesn't look like the animal I am identifying as B. oblonga and I am not sure it is  B. lineata. Whether the border of the foot is bluish or white seems to be variable, but the shell with a single red spiral line looks unusual as do the long anterior tentacles formed from the front of the head shield. However I think it is best to call it B. lineata until someone can look at its anatomy. It's possible the radula may tell us something.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Feb 8). Comment on Bullina from Reunion Island by Hugues Flodrops. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21238

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