Cuthona ornata from Hong Kong

August 14, 2001
From: Bernard Picton

Hi Bill,
Here is a scan of Cuthona ornata from Hong Kong. We collected this species twice during the workshop, I expect Brian Darvell got more after that? I see you don't have it on the Forum yet, Bob Bolland has it at his site, but the main picture looks like a different species to me, whilst his secondary page looks exactly like the Hong Kong specimens.

11 Apr 1983 - NW Kong Chau, Mirs Bay - BEPHK101 - 5-10m

Bernard

bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk

Picton, B.E., 2001 (Aug 14) Cuthona ornata from Hong Kong. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5056

Dear Bernard,
I'll sort out and add Brian Darvell's other records. As you will have noted I am gradually adding his Hong Kong records.

Looks like the yellow on the cerata can be missing at times and the oral tentacles and rhinophores can be pale blue, as in your photo and Bob Bolland's second image. However I don't think Bob's first image is C. ornata.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Aug 14). Comment on Cuthona ornata from Hong Kong by Bernard Picton. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5056

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