Cuthona sp. 6

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: AEOLIDINA
Family: Tergipedidae

DISTRIBUTION

Known from Okinawa and Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

PHOTO

Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, OLD, Australia. 7mm long alive. Photo: Julie Marshall.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2002 (April 8) Cuthona sp. 6 [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/cuthsp6

Related messages


Cuthona sp. 6 from Hachijo Island, Japan

July 20, 2002
From: Shouichi Kato

Dear Bill,
This Cuthona was found when I turned over a rock, shallower than 10m in depth. It was smaller than 10mm.
Please let me know what it is.

Regards,
S. Kato

regulus@edit.ne.jp

Kato, S., 2002 (Jul 20) Cuthona sp. 6 from Hachijo Island, Japan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6961

Dear Shouichi,
I'm pretty sure this is the species we are calling Cuthona sp. 6 on the Forum.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (Jul 20). Comment on Cuthona sp. 6 from Hachijo Island, Japan by Shouichi Kato. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6961

Re: Flabellina? from Okinawa, Japan

July 11, 2002
From: Nishina Masayoshi

Dear Bill,
This animal in Tsuyoshi Kawamoto's message
and Cuthona sp. 6 in the book Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef are similar.
Best Regards,
Nishina Masayoshi

nishina@wips.co.jp

Masayoshi, N., 2002 (Jul 11) Re: Flabellina? from Okinawa, Japan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7512

Dear Nishina,
I am sure you are right. By co-incidence, it is also Cuthona sp. 6 in the Forum. Thanks for not forgetting the species 'lost' on the 'unidentified' pages.
Bill Rudman

Cuthona from Heron Island

April 12, 2002
From: Julie Marshall

Dear Bill,
I have found this beautiful little aeolid twice at Heron Island [Great Barrier Reef]. The first animal, which we illustrated in our book as Cuthona sp. 6, was only 3 mm in size and had a wide mauvish brown band extending down each side of the body. The other specimen, which I found on my most recent trip to Heron Island last month, [March 2002] was almost twice as large (at 5 mm) but its band was bright blue! In all other external features it was the same as the 3 mm animal. Both animals were found under dead coral slabs at the reef crest.
Best wishes
Julie Marshall

juliemarshall@netspace.net.au

Marshall, J., 2002 (Apr 12) Cuthona from Heron Island. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6675

Dear Julie,
I don't recall seeing this beautiful little species before. By coincidence I will call it Cuthona sp. 6 on the Forum as well.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Flabellina? from Okinawa, Japan

October 2, 2001
From: Tsuyoshi Kawamoto

Dear Dr.Rudman
Here is another nudibranch from Kume Is, Okinawa, Japan, 25 June 2001. Outer reef., depth -10m., length 10mm'.

Could you identify it please.

Thank you,
Tsuyoshi Kawamoto

estivant@mrh.biglobe.ne.jp

Kawamoto, T., 2001 (Oct 2) Flabellina? from Okinawa, Japan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5354

Dear Tsuyoshi,
I am sorry I am not having much success with your questions, but I don't recognise this species either. It looks like it could be a species of Flabellina but without looking at its anatomy I couldn't be sure.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Oct 2). Comment on Flabellina? from Okinawa, Japan by Tsuyoshi Kawamoto. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5354