Re: Decorated Phyllidia

March 25, 1998
From: Dr. A.D.Wright

Hi Bill,

Thanks very much for the info. I find nudibranchs fascinating animals both to observe and chemically. We rarely collect them as to do good chemical analyses we need about 10 gm dry weight of animals and normally we don't find this many in any one place, so we leave them alone. The ones (actually 2) I recently collected are from Fiji and were found feeding, so we collected them and their food (a sponge) and will do a very careful analysis of both by GC-MS, hence I don't need much animal. The other is clearly a Phyllidia sp., but I don't know which one yet as it is not in any of the books I have, perhaps I should send you a photo.

If you or your colleagues ever have any interesting animals that you think might be worthwhile us investigating just let me know.

Details on Reticulidia halgerda: Single animal, 5 cm long, on open surface under a large overhang. Bommie directly off Dravuni Island research station, Fiji., 10 m, 21/1/98, (CT198G).
Cheers for now and many thanks for your help,
Tony
Dr. A.D.Wright

a.wright@tu-bs.de

Wright, A.D., 1998 (Mar 25) Re: Decorated Phyllidia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/122

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