The Hooded Nudibranch (Melibe leonina) supposedly smells like fresh watermelon when taken out of the water. This alien-like sea slug can release its six petal-like cerata in the same way that a lizard can drop its tail when threatened.
Yes, that’s like dropping a trail of watermelon jolly ranchers when being chased - photo taken at Three Tree Point, Puget Sound, Washington
wondering why these videos are 15 seconds long? they’re from my instagram, @waterbod - where you can see slightly more regular updates from the field if you’d like. -aron
These are called “sea bunnies” (jorunna parva) not an actual bunny nor mammal, but actually sea slug… adorable sea slug! They graze algae on the sea floor peacefully, and only grow to about 2,5cm, how adorable is that!
Seabunnies are a mix between seaslugs and rabbits. They love to nibble on sponges and bounce around the ocean floor.
[Image description: a photo of six colorful, needle felted seabunnies. Seabunnies are fictional creatures combining seaslugs and rabbits. They have rabbit-like ears, six nubby legs, and a short, fluffy tail. Two are standing on the other four seabunnies in a pyramid shape. They are on a plain, white background.]
Haven’t posted a video in a while. We went tidepooling yesterday and saw these adorably tiny thick-horned Nudibranchs I am definitely obsessed (and had a hard time leaving them behind haha)
Look at the spikes on this one! This Frosted Nudibranch (dirona albolineata) was super intimidating at first - but I actually loved playing with the many layering “spikes”. Crazy to see all the forms these creatures come in
My hands have decided to cooperate today so I’m taking some time to work on more Salish sea Nudibranchs while I listen to crooked kingdom! Did anyone else binge Shadow and Bone on Netflix?
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The Marilyn Monroe under the Nudibranches. I guess you can see why?! ;) Some Species of nudibranchs show ‘mantle-flapping’ in which the whole of the mantle edge rises simultaneously and then falls simultaneously. At this stage we have no idea what the 'purpose’ is, if any, for this type of behavior.
Did you know?
Nudibranchs are hermaphroditic, thus having a set of reproductive organs for both sexes, but they cannot fertilize themselves.
Goniobranchus geminus, also known as the gem sea slug, is a species of very colourful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc. It can reach a maximum size of 5cm.
G. geminus has large purple or purple-brown spots or marks, usually ringed with white, and often reticulate yellow background, and a purple border. Chromodoris geminus having four colour bands around the mantle edge, an outermost white, then translucent greyish purple, then white, then yellow.
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I was able to achieve great success with our project of coral propagation (restoration and reconstruction of coral reefs). I have been an instructor for CP since 2014 and so over time 2000 new corals have been planted. For this I received an award from the organization “Ocean Quest” and “Sea Shepherd Dive”. Newly planted corals the size of a pinhead are monitored with underwater photography. Success rate of 93%.
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