Cyerce pavonina? from Reunion Island

September 17, 2008
From: Philibert Bidgrain


Concerning message #21885:

Dear Bill,
Reunion Island seaslugs

I have in my collection this specimen found some years ago by Maurice Jay
I think it could also be Cyerce pavonina.  I have included a close up of the cerata with the characteristic pattern.

Locality: Saint Paul, Reunion Island, Indian Ocean. Photographer: Maurice Jay.

What's your opinion about this specimen?

Philibert Bidgrain
pbidgrain@yahoo.fr
http://vieoceane.free.fr/runseaslug/indexslug.htm

pbidgrain@yahoo.fr

Bidgrain, P., 2008 (Sep 17) Cyerce pavonina? from Reunion Island. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21893

Dear Philibert,

Thanks for your rapid response to my message. Maurice Jay's photos confirm my comments in Scott Johnson's message [#21887], that an earlier photo from Sth Africa [message #1047 as Cyerce sp. 2] is a dark form of C. pavonina. What is proving to be distinctive are the two larger 'black holes' near the tip of each ceras. Of course they are not holes -  just an illusion - but they certainly look like the siphons of an ascidian.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2008 (Sep 17). Comment on Cyerce pavonina? from Reunion Island by Philibert Bidgrain. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/21893

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