Re: Hypselodoris rudmani from Sodwana Bay, Sth Africa

November 27, 2006
From: Colin Ogden

Concerning message #17554:

Hi Bill,
Thanks for your help on the Hypselodoris rudmani. I have queried it before, but the last one seemed more colourful then the one we normally see. Is this a juvenile H. rudmani? It has had me puzzled for a while.

Locality: Sodwana Bay, 16 metres, South Africa, Indian, 16 june 2006, coral reef. Length: 15mm. Photographer: Colin Ogden.

Thanks a ton.
Colin

scubaco@iafrica.com

Ogden C. M., 2006 (Nov 27) Re: Hypselodoris rudmani from Sodwana Bay, Sth Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18540

Dear Colin,
Often after new species are described there is what could be called a 'settling in' period when we begin to look more closely at similarly coloured animals and try and work out just how much colour variation there is in the new species. Often we have no information on the juveniles, which sometimes may just have some parts of the adult pattern. I guess this specimen and some of the others I have tentatively called H. rudmani fit into that scenario. I suspect this may be a juvenile H. rudmani but there is always the possibility that there are a group of similarly coloured species in southern Africa which we still have to sort out.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Nov 27). Comment on Re: Hypselodoris rudmani from Sodwana Bay, Sth Africa by Colin Ogden. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/18540

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