Dunga ocellata from the Red Sea
March 2, 2005
From: Oren Lederman
Hi Bill,
Couldn't identify this wierd looking slug...
There were a few more semi-transparent slugs there, but I just couldn't focus or take photos of them.
Locality: Near the "Yetush" ( mosquito) shipwreck, Eilat Bay (night dive), Israel, Red Sea. Depth: ~22 meters. Length: 3-4 cm.18 Feb 2005. Photographer: Oren Lederman
Oren Lederman
lederman@bigmail.co.il
Lederman, O., 2005 (Mar 2) Dunga ocellata from the Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13214
Dear Oren,
This is an interesting find. It is Dunga ocellata, originally described from north-eastern India in 1864. It was also described from Zanzibar as Dunga nodulosa in 1902. I found it quite commonly in the 1970s while I was living in Dar es Salaam [message #13249], and in a separate message [#13239 ] I report finding it in New Caledonia.
It has large inflated cerata, bearing a ring of tubercles about a third of the way down from the tip, but the shape of the cerata is quite plastic sometimes they are very inflated, other times quite thin. The red rings on the cerata are quite characteristic of the species.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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