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Richard Willan writes at the Sea-Slug Forum: "When I was in Madang, Papua New Guinea, in 1988 I did discover a dorid that mimics Phyllidiella pustulosa and I gave a presentation on this at the Unitas Malacologia Congess in Tubingen in 1989. So the only publication to date is in the Proceedings of that Congress. Since then I have examined the holotype of Discodoris liturata Bergh, 1905, which is in Amsterdam, and this is the same species but the genus is not Discodoris. Some day I'll get around to publishing this superb example of mimicry and the taxonomy of the mimic." "cf." is an abbreviation from a Latin word (confer) and means 'refer to' or 'compare with', here it means it could possibly be Discodoris liturata or perhaps something closely related, or at least similar in appearance. Discodoris cf. liturata differs from Discodoris liturata by its white rhinophores, whilst Discodoris liturata has black ones. More informations on Discodoris liturata are at Bill Rudman's Sea-Slug Forum! |
