Volvatella sp. e579
9mm

This Volvatella is figured in Gosliner et al (2018) as Volvatella sp. 7. We suspect they are not all that rare, but it takes digging through the Caulerpa plants to find them.

The specimen below is taken from a video capture. The animal appears to be producing an egg mass.

Created 20 February 2009
Updated 2 February 2022

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