South-west Indian Ocean Seaslug and Flatworm site

Reunion Island participants :

Sophie Albanhac Stéphan Aubert Olivier Aubrespin Sully Bachel Monika Bachel Laurent Bardot Alain Barrère Laurent Beche Geoffrey Bertrand François Beudard Philibert Bidgrain Sully Blancard Guillaume Boeye Christine Bottin Philippe Bourjon Christophe Cadet Thierry Cailleux Jean Cardon Philippe Cao Van David Caron Jean-Luc Cheverry Stéphane Ciccione Jérôme Clotagatide Christian Cocherel Armand Daydé

Béatrice Delteil Alain Diringer Delphine Dupin Sophie Darnis Emmanuel Eby Jean Louis Fabry David Faget Franck Faria Jean marc Ferrand Katia Ferrer Hugues Flodrops Sandrine Flodrops Sébastien Flouvat Eva Fontaine Patrick Frouin Jean-Jacques Giordan Thierry Gomilla Nicole Gravier-Bonnet Christophe Jammes Maurice Jay Claire Jean Mathieu Lagarde Yvon Laurelut Rachel Lebatard Lucie Maillot

Fabrice Mallet Bruno Manciet Alain Martinat Fabien Michenet Erwan Meyer Elisabeth Morcel Thierry Mulochau Daniel Nardin Pierre Navorro Guillaume Nédellec Nicolas Noel Carole Nussbaumer Yann Oulia Cédric Péneau Thierry Peres Marina Poddubetskaia Sébastien Pomarede Alain Puig Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin Nathalie Rodrigues Raphaël Roland Gosselin Isabelle Ruffin Céline Tasset Michel Touzet Florence Trentin

Seychelles participants :

Administration and conception of this site :

Philibert Bidgrain

Bibliographic data :

Brunckhorst, D.J. (1993) The systematics and phylogeny of Phyllidiid Nudibranchs (Doridoidea). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 16: 1-107.
    Coleman,N (2001) 1001 Nudibranches. Catologue of indo-pacific sea slugs.
    Debelius,H (1996) Nudibranches and seasnails indo-pacific field guide. Ikan- unterwasserarchiv
    Gosliner,T.M.(1987) Nudibranches of Southern Africa : A guide to Opistobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea challengers and Jeff Hamann: Monterey.
    Gosliner,T.M.; Behrens,D.W.; Williams,G.C. (1996) Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific. Sea challengers: Monterey.
    Marshall, J.G.; Willan R.C. (1999) Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Backhuys publishers Leiden
    Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. (2003). Marine Flatworms: the world of Polyclads . CSIRO Publishing : Melbourne 112
    Yonow,N (2008) Seaslugs of the Red Sea, Pensoft Publishers
    Coleman,N (2008) Nudibranchs encyclopedia, Catalogue of asia/indo-pacific seaslugs
    Gosliner,T.M.; Behrens,D.W.; Valdés,A (2008) Indo-pacific nudibranchs and seaslugs A field guide to the World's most diverse fauna

Change name:

You can find in Australia Nudibranch News, N°3 November 1998. An update for" change name" (Debelius and Gosliner's books)
    You can find in Nudibranch News, 3:12 August 2001. An update for errata (Coleman's book)

Website :

About Seaslugs ...

Sea Slug Forum (http://www.seaslugforum.net/) by Bill Rudman.

Where you can find information and different photos of each species of sea slugs.

Nudipixel (http://www.nudipixel.net/)

Where you can find seaslug from all the world. Some of them are identified by world specialists such as : Richard Willan, Gary McDonald, Nathalie Yonow, Terry Gosliner, Dave Behrens, Marta Pola, Marian Litvaitis, Alexander Martynov, Scott Johnson, Neville Coleman and Leslie Harris. Take care, only photo whis a green round are validated by a specialist

Mollusca opistobranchia (http://www.seaslug.com) by Steve Long.

Where you can find a systematic list of the opistobranchia

Opistobranches from around the world (http://www.medslugs.de/Opi/Opistobranchia.htm) by Erwin Koehler

Where you can find the complete classification of the opistobranchs, arranged both alphabetically and taxonomically, and for each species you can have different web site links where you can find photos or information.

The slug site (http://slugsite.tierranet.com) by Mike Miller

Where you can find images and information of opisthobranchs from the east Pacific coast of North America and Central America, Caribbean and Western Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines).
Many of there are also present in Reunion Island

Nembro (http://www.nembro.info) by Marina Poddubetskaia

Where you can find images and information of opisthobranchs from differents region around the world, and more specialy from Reunion Island, Mauritius, Mayotte Island.

Okinawa Slug Site (http://rfbolland.com) by Robert Bolland.

Where you can find images and information of opisthobranchs from Okinawa. Go to the thumbnail image page and find all the 435 species...
Many of there are also present in Reunion Island

Seaslugs of Hawai (http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/index.html) by Cory Pittman and Pauline Fiene

If you are interest by seaslug from Hawa i...

Seaslugs from sunshine coast Australia (http://www.nudibranch.com.au/index.html) by Gary Cobb, David Mullins and Richard Willan

If you are interest by seaslug from Australia ...

Red Sea seaslug (http://www.koretz.net/Eilat/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Opistobranchs.htm) by Binyamin and Shulamit Koretz

Many photos from Red Sea, but many of these species are also present in our island.

Marenostrum (http://marenostrum.org/vidamarina/animalia/invertebrados/moluscos/gasteropodos/opistobranquios/index-alfa.htm) by Michel Pontes

If you are interest by seaslug from Méditerranée ...

Opistobranches de Tahiti (http://www.nuditahiti.com) by Fabien Michenet

Opistobranchia from Tahiti Island

Nudibranchs and Seaslugs : Mozambique (http://www.seaslugs.org/index.php/en/)

A site in our region...

About flatworms ...

Discovery life (http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Rhabditophora)

A reference site managed by Rachelle Wallace (University of Georgia) and Marian Litvaitis (University of New Hamshire)

Marine flatworm of the world (http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/index.html)

Many photos from around the world and some background data

Nudipixel (http://www.nudipixel.net/order/polycladida/)

Many photos but take care, only photo whis a green round are validated by a specialist

Lifedesk (http://polycladida.lifedesks.org/)

Some interesting data about many species...

About seaslugs, flatworms and others ...

Sous les mers (http://www.souslesmers.fr/)

A very interesting site about marine life...

Mayotte photos plongée (http://www.mayotte-photos-plongee.com/) by Yvon Gildas

Where you can find images of seaslugs and other marine animal from Mayotte Island
Many of there are also present in Reunion Island

Biosub (http://biosub.fr/)

Where you can many information about Marine species and environnement of Sainte Rose (Reunion Island)

Association française de conchyliologie (http://www.xenophora.org/index.php)

Many shell photos for some opistibranch present in our island.