Oxynoe? from Japan

April 30, 2002
From: Nishina Masayoshi

Dear Bill,
I suspect this is a kind of Oxynoidae, perhaps Oxynoe viridis but I have never seen one look like this. From my experience all of the Oxynoe viridis ever seen has "blue eyespots or blue specks" somewhere on the body. The stuff that looks like parapodial flaps is not a flaps. It is a broken parapodia which usually covers a shell.

Photographed by Moguricyo
Data: Hachijyo Island,
Length: 40mm

Best Regards,
Nishina Masayoshi

nishina@wips.co.jp

Masayoshi, N., 2002 (Apr 30) Oxynoe? from Japan. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6667

Dear Nishina,
Absence of a character is the most difficulty thing to interpret. O. viridis usually does have some blue spots sometimes not. Hamatani (1980), in the paper he describes O.kabirensis,
reports that he also found specimens of O. viridis in Japan without blue spots on the body and parapodia, so this is probably a form of O. viridis.
Best wishes.
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2002 (Apr 30). Comment on Oxynoe? from Japan by Nishina Masayoshi. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6667

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