Polycera quadrilineata from Holland

August 6, 1999
From: Peter van Bragt

Dear Bill,

Here is a slide of Polycera quadrilineata from my collection of Dutch nudibranchs.

Location: Plompe toren, de Oosterschelde, the Netherlands

Peter H. van Bragt

Peter.vanBragt@ftn.hsbrabant.nl

van Bragt, P.H., 1999 (Aug 6) Polycera quadrilineata from Holland. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1149

Dear Peter,
I have put this species up as the first of your collection of Dutch nudibranchs. When people from cooler climates complain that all the beautiful nudibranchs live in the tropics, Polycera quadrilineata is one of the species I use to prove them wrong.

I think this was the first European nudibranch I saw alive. I was on a collecting trip with Tom Thompson in South Wales and we went to a place he said was one of his best collecting spots. It was in the middle of a seaport, Milford Haven I think, and I will never forget him trying to tempt me into an oil-slicked patch of freezing water in south Wales. Finally he agreed the water was indeed freezing and full of oil and we retreated to a small marine station nearby, where they had some recently caught Polycera quadrilineata to honour Tom's visit. I don't know if it was my amazement at the beauty of the nudibranch, or my amazement when it finally dawned on me that Tom was really planning to enter the freezing polluted water, but I have never forgotten that collecting expedition, or the Polycera.

Bill Rudman.

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