Re: Mystery slug from Malaysia

October 30, 2006
From: Michael Smith

Concerning message #13735:

Yes, that certainly looks like what I remember. I stopped seeing them after that season but recently we've been seeing another coloration of maybe the same species. I've attached one photo of him with some hitchhikers getting a lift.

Thanks! (and thank you to Jimmy too).

Michael Smith

msmith_sg@yahoo.com

Smith, M., 2006 (Oct 30) Re: Mystery slug from Malaysia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17996

Dear Michael,
In answer to your earlier message [#9456] I suggested your animals could be Pleurobranchus forskalii or P. grandis. Jimmy's photo [#13735] is most probably P. forskalii, but the photo you have sent this time is most definitely of P. grandis. It's more than possible that you have been seeing both species, but as this correspondence illustrates, it is very difficult to be 100% sure without photos, especially in species with a variable colour pattern.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Oct 30). Comment on Re: Mystery slug from Malaysia by Michael Smith. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17996

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