Favorinus tsuruganus in the Red Sea

April 25, 2005
From: Jacob Dafni


Dear Bill,
This picture is with me sometime. I identified it as Favorinus tsuruganus through your site, but only recently I realized that there is no formal record of this species from the Red Sea.

Locality: Southern Beach, Eilat, Israel. Red Sea. Depth: 5 m. Photographer: J. Dafni.

Jacob Dafni

 

jdafni@netvision.net.il

Dafni, J., 2005 (Apr 25) Favorinus tsuruganus in the Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13631

Dear Jacob,
Thanks for this record. We have a couple of records on the Forum from Reunion Id, so its known from the western Indian Ocean, but I think yours is the first from the Red Sea region. I hesitate to confirm this as the 'first record' as there is a chance it had been recorded in the literature either as F. tsurugensis or under another name. There is no 'central register' to look up so without diligent searching it is easy to miss an earlier record.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Apr 25). Comment on Favorinus tsuruganus in the Red Sea by Jacob Dafni. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13631

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