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Dermatobranchus rodmani
Image courtesy of Lawrence NealKhao Lak, Phangnga, Thailand
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Dermatobranchus rodmani Gosliner & Fahey 2011 This is another one of our newly described Dermatobranchus. Lawrence's photos adds nicely to the recorded range of this species. This smallish species is a cream color with a few longitudinal ridges on the notum. It has brown specks all over the body and a pink hue around the edge of the oral veil and notum. Some specimens have a little yellow there. The rhinophores have brown and white specks. Lawrence's critter adds western Thailand to the geographic range, which was previously only Madagascar and eastern Malaysia. As Lawrence comments: "...This one was taken at Khao Lak, Phangnga Province, Western Thailand on the Andaman Sea. It's fairly common at sub-10-metre depths where it crawls around on the rather silty/rocky substrate. This one is crawling across the underside of a shell. I never saw it feeding on anything so no idea as to it's particular choice of soft coral food. This slug is pretty small - in my locale, around 10 mm give or take..."
Sammamish, WA 98074 Feb., 2014 Send Dave email at davidwbehrens@gmail.com
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Lawrence at Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia with
Agung Volcano in background
Lawrence is a newspaper journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. He escapes the office as often as he can to go diving in the rich waters of the Indo-Pacific but his regular dive sites are just down the road along the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea coast. Lawrence uses a Nikon D200 with a 60-mm or 105-mm macro lens in a Nexus housing together with a pair of Inon Z240 strobes and several wet lenses for the really small stuff.
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