Melibe from Turkey

January 25, 2003
From: Ferda Buyukbaykal

Dear Bill,
Could you identify these animals?
enough for you.

Image Data: Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey. June 1997, dil kumu, 8mt / 10-14cm, sandy.

Best wishes
Ferda

ferdabbaykal@isnet.net.tr

Buyukbaykal, F., 2003 (Jan 25) Melibe from Turkey. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/8891

Dear Ferda,
The two animals are a bit hard to see but the way they hold their cerata upright suggest they are a species of Melibe rather then the endemic Tethys fimbria. If so I think the most likely identification is Melibe viridis, an Indo-West Pacific species which has apparently invaded the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal [Lessepsian migrant].
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Jan 25). Comment on Melibe from Turkey by Ferda Buyukbaykal. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/8891

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