Re: Decorated Phyllidia

March 23, 1998
From: Dr. A.D.Wright

Hi Bill, A very good response!
I got the trivial name from Neville Coleman's "Nudibranchs of the South Pacific" Vol. 1, pg 49. I was also surprised no species was assigned to this rather distinctive looking beast.
Cheers,
Dr. Anthony D. Wright,
Technical University Braunschweig,
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology
Mendelssohnstrasse 1
D-38106 Braunschweig
Germany
http://www.tu-bs.de/institute/pharm.biol/GAWK.html

a.wright@tu-bs.de

Wright, A.D., 1998 (Mar 23) Re: Decorated Phyllidia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/121

That makes it easy. It is Reticulidia halgerda, which is one of a pair of species which have a pattern of reticulate ridges over their mantle. Superficially they look like species of the dorid genus Halgerda, hence the species name.. Neville Coleman did not use a species name because it was not described as a new species until a year after Neville's book was published. Have you a general interest or are you looking at some interesting chemical compounds in phyllidiids?...Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 1998 (Mar 23). Comment on Re: Decorated Phyllidia by Dr. A.D.Wright. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/121

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