Placida cremoniana from Mediterranean

May 12, 2001
From: Thierry Thibaut


Hello everybody, a friend of mine, Jean Lou Ferreti, took this picture in front of Cannes (Mediterranean Sea - France) on Padina pavonica. Does anybody knows which species it is ?
Thank You Very much

Thierry Thibaut

thibautt@unice.fr

Thibaut, T., 2001 (May 12) Placida cremoniana from Mediterranean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4305

Dear Thierry,
This is the sacoglossan Placida cremoniana. Although it was found on Pavona I suspect it is feeding on the hair-like filamentous algae in the photo. This species was first described from the Mediterranean but it seems to have a wide Indo-West Pacific distribution as well.

Thanks agan for the interesting photo,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (May 12). Comment on Placida cremoniana from Mediterranean by Thierry Thibaut. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4305

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