Armina tigrina from the French Mediterranean

September 8, 2008
From: Dominique Horst


Hi Bill,

Armina tigrina for the first time ... I found it at the same site as Zeineb did in his previous message [#20059]. It is not very spectacular, but this animal is very sculptural.

Locality: Cagnes, 6m, France, Mediterranean sea, 27 August 2008, muddy. Length: 40 mm. Photographer: Dominique Horst.

Kind regards,
Dom.

dominique.horst@wanadoo.fr

Horst, D., 2008 (Sep 8) Armina tigrina from the French Mediterranean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21845

Dear Dom,

Thes animals are really built for burrowing through the sand, so there is not much point in them being brightly coloured. On the other hand species of the related genus Dermatobranchus, which live on, and feed on alcyonacean soft corals, can be quite spectacularly coloured.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Sep 8). Comment on Armina tigrina from the French Mediterranean by Dominique Horst. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21845

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