Re: Ercolania cf. coerulea from Tanzania

March 31, 2002
From: Kathe R. Jensen

Dear Bill,
Yes, your animal from Tanzania fits my notion of Ercolania coerulea fairly well. The digestive gland tubules in the rhinophores are more conspicuous than most of what I have seen, and there is usually a central - often brownish - digestive gland tubule in the cerata in addition to the fine network of green, superficial tubules.

Somewhere I have a slide (20 years old or so, from Florida) very similar to your lower slide, where you have to know what you are looking for to distinguish the animal from the alga. I hope we can get Lucas to agree on the identity. Anatomically E. coerulea can be distinguished by its very large teeth (only 2 or 3 in upper limb), and the small, pointed penial stylet.

Greetings,
Kathe

jensen@ait.ac.th

Jensen, K.R., 2002 (Mar 31) Re: Ercolania cf. coerulea from Tanzania. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6643

Thanks Kathe,
Bill Rudman

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