Swimming Melibe from Turkey

March 21, 2003
From: Haluk Akbatur

Dear Bill,
I have some difficulty in identifying this pelagic opistobranch. Is it a Melibe species? It is from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey;
Size: 25cm,
Depth: 7m.
Place: Kaþ, Antalya
Date: 25 June 2000

Thanks,
Haluk Akbatur

lasergoz@ttnet.net.tr

Akbatur, H., 2003 (Mar 21) Swimming Melibe from Turkey. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9411

Dear Haluk,
Yes this is a species of Melibe. As you will see from my comments to earlier messages I have some difficulty in identifying these large Melibe to species. Although your animal is apparently free-swimming, it normally lives on the sea floor crawling along on its foot.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Mar 21). Comment on Swimming Melibe from Turkey by Haluk Akbatur . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/9411

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