Re: 'Glossodoris ransoni' from Phoenix Ids
July 26, 2000
From: Mary Jane Adams
Dear Bill,
Thanks so much for the information about the slugs I found in the Phoenix Islands. I took 13 shots of the chromodorid crawling over Halimeda. In most of them the mantle is down. It did not seem to lift it's mantle all at once like C. kuniei, but rather in sections or waves. There are no spots on the foot in any of my shots, however this image shows some dark spots on the underside of the mantle.
Best regards,
Mary Jane
mjadams@earthlink.net
Adams, M.J., 2000 (Jul 26) Re: 'Glossodoris ransoni' from Phoenix Ids. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2770Dear Mary Jane,
Thanks for this photo. It certainly shows at least some spots on the foot, if not quite as numerous as in 'typical' C. kuniei.
Concerning the way it waves its mantle. It would have been nice if you had seen it waving the edge of the mantle up simultaneously and then down again, like in 'typical' C. kuniei, but NOT seeing it is unfortunately not conclusive either way. Although C. kuniei does have its spectacular simultaneous wave of the mantle edge, it can also do the much more normal 'ripple' or longitudinal wave down the mantle as you observed in your specimen.
If by chance one of your slides shows the underside of the head end of the mantle it would be nice to see, because in C. leopardus the underside of the anterior mantle is deep purple, while in C. kuniei it is translucent white except at the edge.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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