Re: Elysia from Florida

January 18, 2002
From: Kathe R. Jensen

Dear Colin & Bill,
I looked at the paper of Ortea & Espinosa that Colin mentioned, and their Elysia pratensis described from Mexico does look similar to what I remember seeing in the Florida Keys some 20 years ago. However, I don't remember any yellow or orange pigment on the tips of the rhinophores. Nor do I remember the white spots on the inner margins of the parapodia. Do you find these characters in specimens from the Bahamas? I can't remember what the dorsals vessels were like (and I don't have my Florida notebooks with me in Thailand), but the radular teeth were also similar to those figured by Ortea & Espinosa.

• Ortea, J. & Espinosa, J. 1996. Descripcion de una nueva especie del genero Elysia Risso, 1818 (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglosa) recolectada en Puerto Morelos, Mexico. Avicennia, 1996, 4/5: 115-119. (sorry my keyboard doesn't have all the Spanish accents)

Greetings,
Kathe

jensen@ait.ac.th

Jensen, K.R., 2002 (Jan 18) Re: Elysia from Florida. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/6023

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