More on Cadlina flavomaculata

July 4, 2006
From: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes


Hi Bill,
Sorting my pics on slugs I saw Steve Lonhart post on Cadlina flavomaculata and your consequent fact sheet. This nudibranch is common to abundant in some diving sites in the Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur area. Late winter to summer I have seen them in great numbers, one every few yards, at a shale bed site called Anchor Farm very near Monterey harbor (about half a mile from the breakwater). But I have seen them in various sites from Schmieder bank (4nm offshore of Pt Sur) to Moss Landing, at depths ranging from 50' to over 200', either on rocky bottom (Fig 1 at Point Lobos and Fig 2 at outer pinnacles) or silty shale bed bottom (Fig 3 at Anchor Farm).

Locality: Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur, 50ft - 200ft+, California, Pacific, Often, rocky, silty. Length: 1cm - 5cm. Photographer: Marcos Perreau Guimaraes.

Marcos Perreau Guimaraes.

marcospg@csli.stanford.edu

Perreau Guimaraes, M., 2006 (Jul 4) More on Cadlina flavomaculata. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17032

Dear Marcos,
Thanks for the additional information. From your observations, is the yellow border to the mantle a common feature? None of the written descriptions I have seem mentions it, but it is present in most photos I have seen. You wouldn't by chance have a photo of this species feeding would you?  It is reported to feed on a species of Aplysilla.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jul 4). Comment on More on Cadlina flavomaculata by Marcos Perreau Guimaraes. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17032

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