Micromelo undata from New South Wales, Australia

August 14, 2002
From: John Pogonoski

Hi Bill,
Attached is a digital image of a slug that I collected at Angourie Pool on our recent northern New South Wales fish collecting trip. [March 2002]. After a quick look on the Sea Slug Forum I suspect that it is the bubble shell Micromelo undata.
John Pogonoski

johnpog@austmus.gov.au

Pogonoski, J., 2002 (Aug 14) Micromelo undata from New South Wales, Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7772

Thanks John,
To most of you 'Angourie Pool' will mean nothing. It is however one of those strange man-made places which looks like an ecological slum, but always has a collection of interesting opisthobranchs. It is in northern New South Wales, eastern Australia, just south of the mouth of a large river, the Clarence River, and was cut high into a rock platform many years ago when stone blocks were being quarried for a breakwater at the fishing village of Yamba. The pool is not more than about 30 meters long by 20m wide and at the deepest end about 2m deep. The bottom is scattered with thin flat 'plates' of rock - rubble left over from quarrying. The high tide only reaches the pool once or twice a month. In this apparently inhospitable environment, I can usually find at least 20 species of mainly tropical opisthobranchs on any visit. So if the weather is bad, it is always a place of last resort to visit.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (Aug 14). Comment on Micromelo undata from New South Wales, Australia by John Pogonoski. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7772

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