Atagema? sp. 1

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DORIDINA
Superfamily: EUDORIDOIDEA
Family: Dorididae

PHOTO

Little Beach, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia. Photo: Judi Martin.

See message below.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 12) Atagema? sp. 1 [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/atagsp1

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Atagema? from Port Stephens

June 14, 2000
From: David & Leanne Atkinson

Hi Bill,

Judi Martin has taken some pics of nudis which we are having trouble identifying. I scanned them off slides, so they are not very clear.

This is from Little Beach, Port Stephens, New South Wales [Australia].

David & Leanne Atkinson

atkin@hunterlink.net.au

Atkinson, D. & L., 2000 (Jun 14) Atagema? from Port Stephens. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2388

Dear David & Leanne,
This is a complete mystery to me. There is a white dorid, Atagema carinata from New Zealand but its mantle is smoother thasn this and the gills and rhinophores are a pale orange-brown. The raised rhinophore pockets are reminscent of Atagema and Trippa.

If anyone can help with an identification I would be very grateful.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Jun 14). Comment on Atagema? from Port Stephens by David & Leanne Atkinson. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2388