Dorid from Canary Ids

May 10, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler

Dear Bill,
this photo is from Gran Canaria Island, Canary Ids, off the west coast of Africa, divesite "Arinaga" taken by Arthur J. Telle,
mercedes@idecnet.com.

Size about 2 cm, depth 4 m, February 1998.
Erwin

Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de

Koehler, E., 2000 (May 10) Dorid from Canary Ids. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2371

Dear Erwin,

This may be a pale version of Discodoris confusa Ballesteros, Llera, & Ortea, 1985 but I would appreciate some comments from Spanish or Portugese experts please.

There is a photo of a darker mottled Discodoris confusa in Peter Wirtz's paper "Opisthobranch Molluscs from the Madeira Archipelago" (1999) Vita Marina 46(1-2): 1-18 the photo being reproduced on Mike Miller's Slug Site at http://siolibrary.ucsd.edu/slugsite/wirtz/wirtz4.htm.

Both it and your photo seem to have the same pale patches down each side with a yellow or brown tipped papilla in each patch. They also both have the high collar around the gill opening.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (May 10). Comment on Dorid from Canary Ids by Erwin Koehler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2371

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