Re: Limacia clavigera from French Mediterranean

March 21, 2008
From: Dominique Horst


Concerning message #7594:

Hello Bill,

It's a kind of explosion of sea slug in the French Mediterranean these last weeks, and a very rich time with many different species.
So even if I have the feeling I am just the following in Marina's footsteps -a few years later - I cannot resist sharing on the forum the new species I meet.
This is Limacia clavigera probably feeding on hydroids (see photo 2).

Locality: Antibes, 10m, France, Mediterranean sea, 16 March 2008. Length: 10 mm. Photographer: Dominique Horst.

Kind regards,
Dom

dominique.horst@wanadoo.fr

Horst, D., 2008 (Mar 21) Re: Limacia clavigera from French Mediterranean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21456

Dear Dom,

It is good to get more photos of the Mediterranean fauna. Much of the early work on opisthobranch biology was based on European species and yet, compared to the Indo-West Pacific fauna, we have few published photographs of the living animals from that part of the world.

Concerning its food. It has only been reported to feed on bryozoans, and the branching colony in photo 2 looks more like a bryozoan than a hydroid colony.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Mar 21). Comment on Re: Limacia clavigera from French Mediterranean by Dominique Horst. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21456

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