Tochuina tetraquetra eggs
March 28, 2007
From: Jackie Hildering
In our continuing quest to match our area's nudibranchs with their egg mass, we have now made enough observations of these egg masses and the nudibranchs close by them to be sure that these are from Tochuina tetraquetra.
Images are not as sharp as I would have liked but hope they are of help anyway.
Locality: Browning Wall, 45', British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Ocean, 24 March 2007, Wall . Length: Monsters! [Slug length] approx 17 inches. Photographer: Jackie Hildering.
Very best wishes,
Jackie
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Hildering, Jackie, 2007 (Mar 28) Tochuina tetraquetra eggs. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19769
Hi Jackie,
Yes, I think I can confirm these as those of Tochuina, and very characteristic of the members of Dendronotina. They display a very characteristic ziz-zag folding of a long tangled string, laid in a coil. You will also note the the egg capsules themselves form a continuous coilded string about 4-5 eggs wide surrounded by a gelatin sheath approximately 1-2 eggs wide.
Thanks for sharing this,
Dave Behrens
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