Doriopisilla miniata from South Africa

February 8, 2003
From: Rudolph van Jaarsveld

Dear Bill,
Attached please find more photos taken this year off Simon Town in False Bay, South Africa [January 2003].
Regards.
Rudolph van Jaarsveld

rudolph.vanjaarsveld@tcm.co.za

Van Jaarsveld, R., 2003 (Feb 8) Doriopisilla miniata from South Africa. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9167

Dear Rudolph,
This is Doriopsilla miniata which is found throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. Like species of the related genus Dendrodoris, species of Doriopsilla are suctorial feeders on sponges. They have lost the radular teeth, used by most dorids to scrape or bite off chunks of their food, and instead release digestive juices on to the sponge, near their mouth, and suck up the resulting 'sponge soup'.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Feb 8). Comment on Doriopisilla miniata from South Africa by Rudolph van Jaarsveld. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9167

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