Hopkinsia? or Okenia? sp.

March 26, 1998
From: Bernard Picton

Hi Bill,
Great idea - the web is supposed to be all about interaction and you've got it exactly right.

Thought you'd like a comment on the Hopkinsia/Okenia - this animal is illustrated as Okenia species 1 in Gosliner, Behrens and Williams' recent book on Indo Pacific Invertebrates. They describe it as feeding on a red bryozoan. Last September I was in SE Sulawesi with an expedition group called Operation Wallacea and my co-science officer Monica Sullivan started finding these animals and we collected a couple and their bryozoan - we were most disappointed on returning to see that Gosliner had beaten us to it as we had already nicknamed it Okenia monica! (jpeg attached)
Bernard Picton

bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk

Picton, B., 1998 (Mar 26) Hopkinsia? or Okenia? sp.. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/69

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