Hypselodoris picta from Greece
March 19, 2002
From: Fons Sarneel
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Dear Bill,
Here is a photo of a second slug my wife and I saw while diving last year, [31 August, 2001] near the island Crete, Greece. To be specific, we were at the coast of the isle "Dia", which is an uninhabited "rock" close to the north coast of Crete.
We found them at a depth of somewhere between 15 and 25 meters. Not too far from the slugs in thisphoto we also found an egg-ribbon. I didn't include the picture of the eggs, because I'm not sure it was deposited by the slugs in the other picture.
Yours sincerely,
Fons Sarneel
fons@sarneel-2.myweb.nl
Dear Fons,
I hesitate to identify a 'blue chromodorid' from the Meditrraneanbecause there are many very similarly coloured species in that region. However I think I am pretty safe in identifying this one as Hypselodoris picta. This fairly large species is found on both sides of the Atlantic, and on the Atlantic islands, and if you have a look at the Fact Sheet you will see it has a number of fairly recognisable colour forms or subspecies.
If you have any other photos of nudibranchs they would be very welcome, even if you have identified then, as they gives us information on colour variation and the geographical distribution of these species.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
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