Petalifera ramosa from the Caribbean

April 3, 2003
From: Bill Rudman

Dear Colin,
In reply to your message I asked if Caribbean specimens of Petalifera ramosa had the characteristic branched papillae on the tubercles. This is answered by Tom Thompson (1977), whose paper you refer to, who describes animals from Discovery Bay in Jamaica and notes the 'spiky processes .... retractile into basal pits'. He also describes them swimming, when disturbed, by dorsoventral flexions of the whole body.

• Thompson, T. E. 1977. Jamaican Opisthobranch Molluscs I. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 43: 93-140.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Apr 3) Petalifera ramosa from the Caribbean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9557

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