Can you please id this nudi?

October 26, 2006
From: Trevor McMurrich

Hi Bill,
I was wondering if you could Identify this nudibranch for me. I found it on the inside wall of Popes Eye in Port Phillip Bay. I'm sorry for the over-exposure.

Locality: Popes Eye, Port Phillip Bay, 1 metre, Victoria, Australia. 12 August 2006, rocky reef. Length: 15 mm. Photographer: Trevor McMurrich.

Thank you
Trevor

trevm@aanet.com.au

McMurrich, T.B., 2006 (Oct 26) Can you please id this nudi?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17477

Dear Trevor,
I am pretty sure this is a colour form of Chromodoris epicuria. The inward folding of the mantle on each side is reminiscent of a species of Noumea, but the only one with a similar colour pattern, Noumea closei, doesn't normallly have such folding and at 15mm length would have a bright yellow background colour.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2006 (Oct 26). Comment on Can you please id this nudi? by Trevor McMurrich. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/17477

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