Tritoniid sp. 3

Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DENDRONOTINA
Family: Tritoniidae

PHOTO

Cebu Is., Philippines, March 2000, depth 5 m, size approx. 7 cm. Photo: Fred Vogt.

See Erwin Koehler's message below.
More photos.

Authorship details
Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 22) Tritoniid sp. 3 [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/tritsp3

Related messages


Marionia ? from the Philippines

July 3, 2001
From: Erwin Köhler


Dear Bill,
here is the next one from the Philippines, Cebu Island, Moalboal, divesite "Dolphin House", depth 12 m, length 65 mm, June 01, 2001.
Erwin

Erwin@medslugs.de

Köhler, E., 2001 (Jul 3) Marionia ? from the Philippines. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4629

Dear Erwin,
This is the one I have previously called Tritoniid sp. 3. I think Odhner would have put it in a genus Marionopsis rather than Marionia but the first task is to sort out the species names of these tropical tritoniids. It seems to be crawling over a colony of the soft coral Pachyclavularia violacea which is the food of the aeolid Phyllodesmium briareum [see Rie Nakano's photo]. Did you by chance see any sign of it feeding on this soft coral or was it just passing by?
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.,B., 2001 (Jul 3). Comment on Marionia ? from the Philippines by Erwin Köhler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4629

More photos of Tritoniid sp. 3

July 12, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler


Dear Bill,
2 more photos of Tritoniid sp. 3, one showing the ornaments, the other
showing the head. I found a similar looking one in Wells & Bryce "Sea Slugs of Western Australia" # 217: Marionia sp.

Erwin

Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de

Koehler, E., 2000 (Jul 12) More photos of Tritoniid sp. 3. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2690

Dear Erwin,
Yes it is probably the same as the Wells & Bryce species and probably the same as Gosliner's Marionia sp. 2 in Nudibranchs of Southern Africa.

At present there is little comparative material available to compare the various blue-spotted species which have been found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

Rudman, W.B., 2000 (Jul 12). Comment on More photos of Tritoniid sp. 3 by Erwin Koehler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2690

Tritoniid from the Philippines

June 23, 2000
From: Erwin Koehler

Dear Bill,
this one is from the Philippines, Cebu Is.,
divesite "Wall of Death", March 2000, depth 5 m, size approx. 7 cm.
This photo is by Fred Vogt.
Erwin

Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de

Koehler, E., 2000 (Jun 23) Tritoniid from the Philippines. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2572

Dear Erwin,
It is a tritoniid, but I can't say much more.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman