Hypselodoris picta from Spain
November 17, 2003
From: Juan
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What type of 'Sea Goddess' is this? I ran into this one with light blue with bright yellow spots / some forming streaks / off the coast of the Costa del Sol in southern Spain. Any help would be apreciated.
Juan
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Juan, 2003 (Nov 17) Hypselodoris picta from Spain. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/11351![](/images/m11351d.jpg)
Dear Juan,
This is Hypselodoris picta. If you look at the species Fact Sheet yu will see it has a number of apparent colour forms and a wide distribution on both sides of the Atlantic. It would be interesting to know if the white sponge it is crawling on, and which obviously covers quite a bit of the sea bottom, is something it eats. As far as I know the only food it is reported to eat in the Mediterranean is Dysidea fragilis.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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