Talk:Phylliroe

Copyright problem
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For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter, here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you. -- ascidian | talk-to-me  13:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

"The Medusa and the Snail"?
P. Bucephalum appears to be the nudibranch described in the opening essay in the popular book "The Medusa and the Snail" by Lewis Thomas. The essay describes a remnant of the medusa attaching itself to the nudibranch's jaw, and then producing offspring, while this article states only that the nudibranch consumes the medusa. If the essay is incorrect, wouldn't it be worth stating that as a notable misconception about P. Bucephalum? On the other hand, if the medusa does survive and parasitize the nudibranch, then the description in this article is incomplete.

Though well-known, the essay is not in itself a citable scientific source. Thus I am not going to change this article unless/until I can find something citable that resolves the question. I'm just posting this in the hope that an expert in the field does have such a source. Swartzer (talk) 04:44, 30 May 2014 (UTC)