Trapania japonica? from Flores, Indonesia

June 3, 2008
From: Teresa Zuberbühler

Dear Bill
I send you here some pictures of what I think must be Trapania japonica.

These Nudibranchs are so small, the quality of the photos are not so good - sorry.

Locality: Maumere, 10-15 m, Flores, Inodnesia, Pacific, August 06, sand and mud. Length: 7 mm. Photographer: Teresa (Zubi) Zuberbühler.

Teresa (Zubi) Zuberbühler

webmaster@starfish.ch

Zuberbühler, T., 2008 (Jun 3) Trapania japonica? from Flores, Indonesia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21603

Dear Zubi,

I think you are probably right identifying these as T. japonica. I haven't seen one like this in which the brown spots are replaced by large patches like this but we still have much to learn about colour variability in these species.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Jun 3). Comment on Trapania japonica? from Flores, Indonesia by Teresa Zuberbühler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21603

Factsheet

Trapania japonica

Related messages

  1. Radular morphology of Trapania japonica
    From: Bill Rudman, March 12, 2008
  2. Trapania japonica from Hong Kong
    From: Bill Rudman & Brian Darvell, February 2, 2002

Show factsheet and all related messages