Glossodoris? from South Africa

November 10, 1999
From: Valda Fraser

Dear Bill

I would like to know whether this Glossodoris sp has been named.  It is found very commonly on our coast.  This is a huge specimen.  Normally they are half this size.
    
Locality: South Coast KwaZulu/Natal - SOUTH AFRICA. Near Port Shepstone, Rocky reef, 15 m, October 1999, 40mm long.
    
I have found it in Gosliner, T. 1987 NUDIBRANCHS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. Sea Challengers, page 85, specimen 137 Glossodoris sp 4.

Thanks.
Valda Fraser

iti04937@mweb.co.za

Fraser, V., 1999 (Nov 10) Glossodoris? from South Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1504

Dear Valda,
I'm pretty sure Terry hasn't described this species as yet. He has reviewed the species of Chromodoris from his book (Gosliner, 1994), but like all of us I am sure he has a backlog of interesting things still to get to.

Bill Rudman.

•Gosliner, T. M. (1994) New species of Chromodoris and Noumea (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) from the western Indian Ocean and southern Africa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 48(12): 239-252.

Rudman, W.B., 1999 (Nov 10). Comment on Glossodoris? from South Africa by Valda Fraser. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1504

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