Re: Hypselodoris carnea? from the Gulf of Kutch, India

November 20, 2009
From: Dishant Parasharya

Concerning message #19388:

Dear Dr. Bill,

Got this species on 4th November 09. However I am working on the opisthobranchs in this area, but didn't get this species during my work. It looks like Hypselodoris sp. kindly guide me in the same. This is the only specimen I found.

Locality: intertidal rock pool with 70% algal cover, 15 cm, Dwarka, Gulf of Kutch,
Gujarat, India, Arabian sea, 4/11/2009, rocky. Length: 25 mm. Photographer: Vinod s Gajjar.

Dishant Parasharya

dparasharya@gmail.com

Parasharya, D.P., 2009 (Nov 20) Re: Hypselodoris carnea? from the Gulf of Kutch, India. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22818

Dear Dishant,

Your animal is almost identical in colour to Brian Mayes photo from Oman [message #19677] which I identified as Hypselodoris carnea.

Yours has fewer white lines than the Oman animal but that is a link to the multi-lined animals from South Africa. Another similarity are the dark translucent brown patches with black spots  along each side of the mantle which are present in all specimens. The main difference is the colour of the mantle edge. The yellow is absent in southern animals and the blue has changed to a deep purplish plum colour. But Colin Ogden [message #21508] has shown is colour variants from South Africa which have a submarginal band of yellow which could be the ornage of the yellow spots in your animal. Chromodoris aureopurpurea shows a similar shift in yellow.

I could turn out to be quite wrong but we still have a lot to learn about variation in both these white-lined chromodorids and in the blue and yellow spotted Hypselodoris infucata group of species.. 

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (Nov 20). Comment on Re: Hypselodoris carnea? from the Gulf of Kutch, India by Dishant Parasharya. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22818

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