Re: Unknown Flabellina from the Red Sea

July 26, 2006
From: Binyamin Koretz

Concerning message #17157:

Dear Bill,
Just for clarification, what I had written on our Israeli seaslug forum was that Oren's animal shows similarity to F. bicolor but that the latter species has different rhinophores, etc., as you explained. More important, I also pointed out that Erwin Koehler has posted photos of identical slugs from Thailand, which he called Flabellina cf bicolor, on his medslugs site. (See http://www.medslugs.de/E/Ind-E/Flabellina_bicolor_cf.htm) These have the same head markings as Oren's slug, so as you surmised, this is indeed characteristic of the species -- which apparently has a geographic range of at least from the Red Sea to the eastern Indian Ocean.

Best regards
Binyamin

binyamin@koretz.net

Koretz, B., 2006 (Jul 26) Re: Unknown Flabellina from the Red Sea. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17206

Thanks Binyamin,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Jul 26). Comment on Re: Unknown Flabellina from the Red Sea by Binyamin Koretz. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17206

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