Distribution of Polycera capensis in Australia

October 8, 1998
From: Richard Willan

Dear Bill,
Wayne Ellis has told me you have had heart surgery recently. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
    
I wonder if you could post the following request on the opisthobranch forum please?
 
Can anyone tell me the present northern and/or southern limit of the Australian range of the introduced Polycera capensis please? It would be nice if you had a photo of Polycera capensis to accompany it.
         
Many thanks,
    
Richard Willan  
Northern Territory Museum  
Darwin.        

richard.willan@nt.gov.au

Willan, R., 1998 (Oct 8) Distribution of Polycera capensis in Australia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/252

Dear Richard,
Providing a photo is no problem. I have found it from Sydney and Broken Bay in mid New South Wales. Wayne Ellis reports it from Port Stephens, a bit further north of Sydney in his species list, but I don't know of other records. If anyone has a photo or record of this animal, which can occur in large numbers on its food, arborescent bryozoans, please let us know. Bill Rudman.

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