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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Elysia nigropunctata, Pease, var. Sanguinea, var. nov
Elysia nigropunctata, Pease, var. Sanguinea, var. nov.
(Fig. 49).
This variety differs from the type figured by Pease or Bergh* by being smaller by one third, and having the tentacles and mantle border coloured a vivid crimson.
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Fig. 49
One specimen was collected at low water on the extreme outer edge of the windward reef.
Perhaps E. marginatus, Pease, is but another colour variety of the same species.
* * Pease—Am. Journ. Conch., vi., 1871, p. 304, pl. xxii., fig. 2 a, b, c, d.; Bergh—Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, i., 1873, p. 80, pl. ix., fig. 7.