Re: Thecacera pennigera - a new Mediterranean exotic

March 27, 2008
From: Juan Lucas Cervera

Concerning message #21469:

Dear Bill,

Many years ago I used the following Vayssière's reference:

VAYSSIÈRE, A. J. B. M. 1913. Mollusques de la France et des régions voisines, tome premier, amphineures, gasteropodes opisthobranches, heteropodes, marseniades et oncidiides. Encyclopedie Scientifique, publiee sous la direction du Dr. Toulouse, Bibliotheque de Zoologie Doin, Paris, pp. 1-420, I-XII, pls. 1-37. [Nudibranchia pp. 243-365].

Unfortunately it is not currently available to me. In this volume, it seems to me that Vayssière included a record of Thecacera pennigera from Sicily, but without bibliographic source of it. Probably, this record is the reason it has been included in the site of Italian Fauna (www.faunaitalia.it).

After this reference, I have no news of additional material collected from the Mediterranean. Of course, I cannot confirm the identity of Vayssiere's record.

Best.
Lucas.

lucas.cervera@uca.es

Cervera, J.L., 2008 (Mar 27) Re: Thecacera pennigera - a new Mediterranean exotic. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21472

Thanks Lucas,
It's a bit hard to confirm early records like this, but I will have a look at Vayssiere's publication when I am next in the museum. I note that Pruvot-Fol (1953) does not include the Mediterranean in her distribution of the species.

  • Pruvot-Fol, A. (1954) Mollusques Opisthobranches. Faune de France, Paris 58: 1-460,Pl.1.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Mar 27). Comment on Re: Thecacera pennigera - a new Mediterranean exotic by Juan Lucas Cervera. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21472

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