What is this?

June 17, 2000
From: Mary Jane Adams

Dear Bill,

I found this chromodorid on a night dive at Esa'ala wharf, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea, May 24, 2000. The bottom is a sand slope with lots of rubbish. This animal was about 25 mm long, 5 meters deep, doing a tight rope walk on a piece of fishing line. The mantle is a mottled rusty red-orange with a narrow irregular white edging. The rhinophores are perfoliate. There was a second identical slug a few centimeters away.

Can you I.D. it?

Thanks!
Mary Jane

mjadams@earthlink.net5

Adams, M.J., 2000 (Jun 17) What is this?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2527

Dear Mary Jane,
This is definitely a dorid, but probably not a chromodorid. I am afraid I don't recognise it. I dislike consigning photos to the 'unidentified' page as they have a habit of staying there. With luck someone out there will have come cross it before and will be able to give us a clue to its identity.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Jun 17). Comment on What is this? by Mary Jane Adams. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2527

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Unidentified - Indo West Pacific

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