Green Dendrodoris? from Colombia

September 17, 2001
From: Elianny Dominguez Tejo


Dear Bill,
Could this animal belong to the genera Dendrodoris or Discodoris? It has beautifully shaped rinophores, and on the posterior end it has a crown of gills just like the ones on Dendrodoris krebsii. The color is light green (like olive green) with dark spots of darker green.

We found on rocky substratum (15 cm of depth) on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the animal is about 5 cm long.

Cheers,
Elianny Dominguez

elicelotte@latinmail.com

Dominguez Tejo, E., 2001 (Sep 17) Green Dendrodoris? from Colombia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5277

Dear Elianny,
This animal is clearly a Dendrodoris and falls within our present understanding of Dendrodoris krebsii. Gilianne Brodie has suggested that this 'species' may be a complex of species like the Dendrodoris nigra - Dendrodoris fumata group in the Indo-West Pacific so I guess it would be useful to keep a note of colour forms and whether they lay different sort of eggs etc. Gilianne also mentioned that the original spelling was krebsii not krebsi. I was wrong to suggest the new Rules obliged us to convert the spelling to krebsi - they do not. As previously, they just accept that the two spellings are to be considered to be identical spellings as far as the Rules are concerned.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Sep 17). Comment on Green Dendrodoris? from Colombia by Elianny Dominguez Tejo. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/5277

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