Unknown dorid - Gargamella? - from Sth Africa

September 16, 2005
From: Charles Rowe

Hi Bill,
Here is a nudi from our wreck in Algoa Bay. This one makes 5 different nudis from a very small site indeed! This one was spotted on the sand next to the wreck in about 20 metres on its own. It was about 40 mm long.

Haerlem Wreck Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 25 metres, 40 mm long., Indian Ocean. Photographer: Charles Rowe

Since buying my new camera an Olympus 7070 I have been able to enlarge my shots quite a bit more and in doing so I am amazed to see that some nudis are bumpy! That is to say the epidermis is not smooth but almost warty. Very interesting.

See ya.
Charles

Charles.Rowe@gmsa.com

Rowe, C., 2005 (Sep 16) Unknown dorid - Gargamella? - from Sth Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14763

Dear Charles,
Thanks for this. We already have a message about this from Valda Fraser [#4866]. There are a number of whitish dorids with blackish or dark brown spots from Sth Africa, including a new species of Gargamella. However, none of them seem to have the distinctive opaque white submarginal line around the mantle border which is so distinctive in both your photos and Valda Fraser's. There is also Aphelodoris sp. 4 but it is an opaque white and the rhinophores are black. May be Terry Gosliner will recognise it for us
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Sep 16). Comment on Unknown dorid - Gargamella? - from Sth Africa by Charles Rowe. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14763

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