Tritoniid sp. 3
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DENDRONOTINA
Family: Tritoniidae
PHOTO
Cebu Is., Philippines, March 2000, depth 5 m, size approx. 7 cm. Photo: Fred Vogt.
See Erwin Koehler's message below.
More photos.
Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 22) Tritoniid sp. 3 [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/tritsp3
Related messages
Marionia ? from the Philippines
July 3, 2001
From: Erwin Köhler
Dear Bill,
here is the next one from the Philippines, Cebu Island, Moalboal, divesite "Dolphin House", depth 12 m, length 65 mm, June 01, 2001.
Erwin
Erwin@medslugs.de
Köhler, E., 2001 (Jul 3) Marionia ? from the Philippines. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4629Dear Erwin,
This is the one I have previously called Tritoniid sp. 3. I think Odhner would have put it in a genus Marionopsis rather than Marionia but the first task is to sort out the species names of these tropical tritoniids. It seems to be crawling over a colony of the soft coral Pachyclavularia violacea which is the food of the aeolid Phyllodesmium briareum [see Rie Nakano's photo]. Did you by chance see any sign of it feeding on this soft coral or was it just passing by?
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
More photos of Tritoniid sp. 3
July 12, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler
Dear Bill,
2 more photos of Tritoniid sp. 3, one showing the ornaments, the other
showing the head. I found a similar looking one in Wells & Bryce "Sea Slugs of Western Australia" # 217: Marionia sp.
Erwin
Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de
Koehler, E., 2000 (Jul 12) More photos of Tritoniid sp. 3. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2690Dear Erwin,
Yes it is probably the same as the Wells & Bryce species and probably the same as Gosliner's Marionia sp. 2 in Nudibranchs of Southern Africa.
At present there is little comparative material available to compare the various blue-spotted species which have been found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
Tritoniid from the Philippines
June 23, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler
Dear Bill,
this one is from the Philippines, Cebu Is.,
divesite "Wall of Death", March 2000, depth 5 m, size approx. 7 cm.
This photo is by Fred Vogt.
Erwin
Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de
Koehler, E., 2000 (Jun 23) Tritoniid from the Philippines. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2572Dear Erwin,
It is a tritoniid, but I can't say much more.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman