Tom Wyatt's Plakobranchus message

January 18, 2003
From: Mary Middlebrook

Bill,
The photo of what you have identified as Plakobranchus is one that I personally took at my import facility and it definitely came from Tonga. I don't know who Tom Wyatt is and why he's making claims about it's origin and how it came in. The Tonga exporter is claiming that it eats flatworms, although I have personally not witnessed this since I'm not plagued by the creatures!
Thank you,
Mary Middlebrook
http://www.reefsource.com/

marinewholesale@hotmail.com

Middlebrook, M, 2003 (Jan 18) Tom Wyatt's Plakobranchus message. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/8958

Thanks for clearing up the origin of the animal. I guess Mr Wyatt must have copied the photo from your website. Anyway my comments are still the same. I can assure you that is a herbivore. Perhaps you should ask the exporter for some evidence for his claims that it eats flatworms. Perhaps he is just hoping to sell a few to desperate aquariists with a flatworm problem.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Jan 18). Comment on Tom Wyatt's Plakobranchus message by Mary Middlebrook . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/8958

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