A colour variant of Flabellina fusca

February 21, 2001
From: Marli Wakeling

This is a strange looking Flabellina specimen. The colour is the darkest that I have seen. The usual white tips on the cerata aren't present, and the white on the oral tentacles is much more like a Flabellina verrucosa. However, the rhinophores are slightly annulate. There is also a white line running down the dorsal area, like a Flabellina trilineata. Sandra Millen felt it was indeed a Flabellina fusca, with strange colouration.
Marli

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Wakeling, M., 2001 (Feb 21) A colour variant of Flabellina fusca. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3826

Renamed Flabellina trophina - see 18 April 2003 message.

Thanks Marli,
O'Donoghue (1921) in his original description talks of 'cores of the cerata are of a deep brown colour' which would seem to match this specimen quite well.
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Feb 21). Comment on A colour variant of Flabellina fusca by Marli Wakeling. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3826

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