Doris sticta from Scilly Isles
September 30, 2009
From: David Kipling
![](/images/m22610a.jpg)
Dear Bill,
Here is a picture of Doris sticta that Sarah Bowen and I found on the Isles of Scilly recently. It was in a rich sponge environment.
Locality: Isles of Scilly, 49o 56.12 N 006o 15.59W, 25 m, United Kingdom, Atlantic, 1 May 2009, On a ledge in a steep rocky wall environment, a rich silty mixed sponge environment.. Photographer: David Kipling.
Do you have any clue as to what this species eats? I presume some type of sponge given the shape of the animal. The dark coloured spiky object that the animal is crawling over is in fact a very large holothurian, which made the nudibranch very easy to spot!
Best regards
David Kipling
plankton@dircon.co.uk
Kipling, D., 2009 (Sep 30) Doris sticta from Scilly Isles. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22610Dear David,
Thanks for the record. I'm afraid this is another species we know little about. According to Picton & Morrow (2009) there is no information available on what it eats. Presumably it is a sponge-feeder but whether or not it specialises on a particular species we just don't know.
-
Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2009. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W13970
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
Related messages
-
Doris sticta from Guernsey
From: Richard Lord, July 13, 2003 -
Doris sticta from Guernsey [2]
From: Richard Lord, July 13, 2003