Hypselodoris picta & Florida slug
June 1, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler
Dear Bill,
Concerning the recent message about a nudibranch from Florida, here are some photos of Hypselodoris picta. H. picta is the largest Nudibranch from the Mediterranean Sea and varies greatly in colour and pattern. In many publications the name Hypselodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835) as Doris elegans is used. Ortea, Valdés and García-Gómez (1996) give their preference to Hypselodoris picta, because the name Doris elegans is occupied by Quoy & Gaimard, 1832. This publication is in Spanish - my Spanish is good enough to order drinks (una cerveza por favor), but not for real understanding this scientific text. There are 5 subspecies for H. picta defined, one of which is H. picta webbi.
PHOTOS:
•marco01: France, Antibes, divesite "Cap d'Antibes" size unrecorded, depth 14 m, July 1998, Photo by Armand di Marco, e-mail: armand.dimarco@ci.educ.lu
•ek075601: Italy, Elba Is., Capoliveri, divesite "Fonza" size 5 cm, depth 5 m , July 06, 1997.
•ek076703: Italy, Elba Is., Capoliveri, divesite "Stella" size 3 cm, depth 28 m , July 12, 1997.
•ek086520: Spain, Cala Joncols, divesite "El Bisbal" size 6 cm, depth 14 m , May 01, 1998.
•ek109227: Spain, Cala Joncols, divesite "La Virgen" size 45 mm, depth 13 m , April 27, 2000. [Photos "ek…" by Erwin Koehler]
Reference:
Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & and García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. [Review of the Atlantic species of the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) of the blue chromatic group.] Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.
Erwin
Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de
Koehler, E., 2000 (Jun 1) Hypselodoris picta & Florida slug. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2483
Dear Erwin,
Thanks for the great selection of photos of H. picta and for reminding me that H. webbi is considered now to be one of numerous synonyms of H. picta. I must say I was puzzled when I couldn't find any photos on the web through searching your online list but I was searching for 'Hypselodoris webbi' instead of just 'webbi' or 'Hypselodoris picta webbi'.
To all of you who are interested Erwin has a large selection of photos of the various colour forms of Hypselodoris picta on his Mediterranean Slug Site at http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm and through his opisthobranch image list at http://www.medslugs.de/Opi/Opisthobranchia.htm.
Bill Rudman.
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