Flabellina ischitana from nthn Spain

March 19, 2001
From: Bernard Picton

Hi Bill,
I was just looking through a few pictures I have of Mediterranean nudibranchs and I found this one which I had labelled as Flabellina affinis. There are two animals, an adult and a juvenile on a Eudendrium sp. hydroid. On looking at the Forum I see that it fits exactly Lucas Cervera's
definition of Flabellina ischitana. I've enclosed a big scan so you can cut bits out of it, in particular the contrast between the violet body colour and the transparent surface to the cerata shows well in this photo. If the digestive gland coloration is as variable as it is in some other Flabellina species then Erwin's photo may well be F. ischitana.

Medas Is, NE Spain - May 1987

Bernard

bernard.picton.um@nics.gov.uk

Picton, B, 2001 (Mar 19) Flabellina ischitana from nthn Spain. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4006

Thanks Bernard,
Bill Rudman

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