Tritoniid from the Coral Sea
June 18, 2000
From: Stuart Hutchison
Dear Bill,
Here is another one I can't identify. It is from 8-12m in the Coral Sea.
Stuart Hutchison
hutchco@tpg.com.au
Hutchison, S., 2000 (Jun 18) Tritoniid from the Coral Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2563Dear Stuart,
I can't give you a name for this but it is a tritoniid [family Tritoniidae], one of a family of nudibranchs which feed on soft-corals. They have a series of branched gills down each side of the body. This animal is probably a juvenile and you have photographed it on a soft-coral, possibly its food. The dark spots over the soft-coral are the pits into which the polyp animals have retracted.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.