Cyerce elegans from West Papua
November 2, 2006
From: Roland Chia
I have send the video still to Neville Coleman, however, he told me that this nudibranch is described to genus, and not to species. He gave me the following information and told me this may be an undescribed species:
FAMILY: Polybranchidae.
COMMON NAME: Scalloped Cyerce
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Cyerce sp.
My operations director, Roger Koh, was the one who shot the video during a night muck dive near the Biak harbour (West Papua, Indonesia).
Locality: Biak City Harbour, 8 metres, Papua, Indonesia, Cenderawasih Bay, 10 November 2005, Muck area, City Harbour. Length: 45 to 50mm. Photographer: Roger Koh.
Hope you may shed some light on this.
Regards
Roland Chia
www.swanido.com
roland@swanido.com
Chia, R., 2006 (Nov 2) Cyerce elegans from West Papua. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17260Dear Roland,
This is indeed a species of Cyerce, but rather than being unnamed, it has had a name, Cyerce elegans, since 1870. As I have said many times before, I am not in favour of Neville's 'common names', which are usually his inventions and not in common use. [see Common names- should we use them?]
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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