Re: Eubranchus mandapamensis from Ratnagiri, India

May 20, 2009
From: Vishal Bhave

Dear Bill,

I found this under an intertidal rock encrusted with hydroids. This slug was also found at Mandavi under the rock in the same pool in which Eubranchus mandapamensis was found [message #22443 ].

Locality: Rock patch, Mandavi,Ratnagiri, 0.5 feet, Maharashtra, India, Arabian sea, 08 February 2009, below rock in the Rock pool, Intertidal with . Length: 8 mm. Photographer: Vishal Bhave.

Vishal Bhave.

vishalbhave@gmail.com

Bhave, V., 2009 (May 20) Re: Eubranchus mandapamensis from Ratnagiri, India. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22483

Dear Vishal,

This appears to be just another colour form of E. mandapamensis, in which the purplish band is very obvious and the fine brown spots all over the body are a lighter colour. If you look carefully at the rhinophores the rings, when present, are edged in white. Some of the rings seemed to be broken into a ring of a few white-tipped tubercles. This also suggest a link with Thompson's E. rubropunctatus, but in that species the tubercles on the cerata seem to be randomly arranged rather than in rings. As I said earlier, we still have a lot to learn about variability in this group of species.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2009 (May 20). Comment on Re: Eubranchus mandapamensis from Ratnagiri, India by Vishal Bhave. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22483

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