Flabellina ischitana

June 19, 1999
From: Juan Lucas Cervera

Dear Bill:

I'm not convinced that the picture of the animal that E. Koehler attributes to Flabellina ischitana belongs truly to that species. Hirano & Thompson (1990) supplied a color plate of their species. I have collected it in southern Iberian peninsula (many specimens). Their color is in agreement with those of Naples (type locality) and most of the internal anatomy. Probably, many records of F. affinis in the Mediterranean should be attributed to F. ischitana. I have published a redescription of this species in THE VELIGER (July 1998: J.L. Cervera & P.J. Lopez-Gonzalez) in which are detailed the extenal and internal anatomy and are compared with those of F. affinis. Neither species have yellow marks.

It would be very interesting to study the specimen/s photographed by E. Koehler.

Juan Lucas Cervera

lucas.cervera@uca.es

Dear Lucas,
Have you have a 'typical' photo of Flabellina ischitana I could put on the Forum? I have a photo from Daniel Geiger of what I think is Flabellina affinis so it would be good to have the three on the Forum so that they could be compared with each other.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

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