Re: Flabellina sp.1 from Egypt

May 11, 2007
From: Ramez Hamade

Dear Bill

I can't find this one in any of my books, but to me it looks like Flabellina sp.1, what do you think?

Locality: house reef, Reaissance Garden Hotel, Sharm El Sheikh, 20m, Egypt, Red Sea, 18 March 2006, Sharply shelving, Sea facing reef. Length: 4-5 cm. Photographer: Ramez Hamade.

Ramez Hamade

ramez@leonarda.co.uk

Hamade, R., 2007 (May 11) Re: Flabellina sp.1 from Egypt. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16905

Dear Ramez,

Yes this is the animal I have been calling Flabellina sp.1, however I am leaning towards the idea Philip Cromwell and others suggested 5 years ago [#8281] that this is Cuthona sibogae. A look at the radular teeth would quickly solve the puzzle.

Your lower photo though has a strange feature. In the inset I have included you will see a pair of short tentacles at the front of the foot. These are the sort of tentacular foot corners you would find in a species of Flabellina, but species of Cuthona don't have them. Perhaps there is a cuthonid and a flabellinid with very similar colour patterns?

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2007 (May 11). Comment on Re: Flabellina sp.1 from Egypt by Ramez Hamade. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16905

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