Ercolania viridis? from Tunisia

June 4, 2003
From: Anis Eters

Dear Bill,
I found this sea slug in a coastal lagoon, Lac de Tunis [southern section] in Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa. Depth: 0 to 1m some time between January and March, 2003. size: 3-4mm. Substratum : muddy bottom amongst Ulva rigida

Can you identify it please.
Thanks,
Anis.

bensouissi.jamila@inat.agrinet.tn

Eters, A., 2003 (Jun 4) Ercolania viridis? from Tunisia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9853

Dear Anis,
This is a sacoglossan, but I am not sure how easy it will be to identify without some anatomical information. Did you see the egg ribbon being layed or was it found with the animals? Why I ask is that it is often risky to assume that an egg mass belongs to the closest available animal. Hopefully one of our European colleagues will be able to identify it.

It looks very like an animal identified by Garcia-Gomez (2003) as Ercolania viridis (A. Costa, 1866). Garcia-Gomez considers Ercolania funerea (A. Costa, 1867), which is discussed elsewhere on the Forum, to be a synonym. Hopefully Kathe Jensen who was moving from Thailand, during the last discussion, will be in a better position to help us out this time.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Jun 4). Comment on Ercolania viridis? from Tunisia by Anis Eters. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9853

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