Re: Bulla quoyii from New Zealand

September 2, 2003
From: Audrey Falconer

Any handy hints for finding Bulla quoyii? Next March I'm going to Port Welshpool in Victoria, Australia, and one of the targets is to catch and photograph one.

Thanks for any suggestions!
Audrey

audrey@bluering.org.au

Falconer, A., 2003 (Sep 2) Re: Bulla quoyii from New Zealand. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10876

Dear Audrey,
I should have included temperate Australia in to the distribution range of B. quoyii where it was for a long time known as Bulla botanica [= Quibulla botanica].

I'm afraid I am not a good person to give advice on Bulla hunting. Although I have found huge drifts of empty shells at times I have only ever found them alive in small numbers. One problem is that they seem to be nocturnal animals, spending the day either buried in the substrate or nestled in clumps of sea grass or algae. So may be a night visit at low tide may be the answer
Best wishes
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Sep 2). Comment on Re: Bulla quoyii from New Zealand by Audrey Falconer. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10876

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