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hello sweet little chonk 💛 I wonder if the feeding barnacles tickle their foot, assuming nudibranchs are ticklish 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

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Forgot to share these! King Tides back in December

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Okay I think these are the best yet from my waterproof camera. It’s really hard to see what you’re doing and focus when you’re just sticking your hand in a tidepool and trying to not fall in and you can’t actually see the screen 🤷🏼‍♂️ Tips appreciated 😂 #tidepool #nudibranch #hopkinsrose #spotteddorid

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mid-February means it is time for the western monarch migration! it's been a rough year as the population overwintering in California has been devastatingly low, but they are capable of rebounding if the next generations have a better summer this year 🤞 🦋🐙🌿🌎📷📸 #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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A few weeks ago I trash talked myself right into an art challenge with Franz by saying I was going to draw 3 nudibranchs for every crab because we need MORE nudibranchs and LESS crabs... So today I present to you, TRIPLE the nudis to Franz's crabs. #Invertebrates #SciArt #TradArt

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Spanish shawl nudibranch, with red rhinophores, orange cerrata, and purple oral tentacles. Rhinophores are like an inside-out nose. Eyespots appear below the rhinophores. When your entire body is flexible you can make lots of faces. Shot with film at Anacapa in 2003. 🦑

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Festive Tritonid (Tritonia festiva) #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #nudibranch

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California Head Shield Slug (Navanax inermis), aka the Nudi Eater #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #nudibranch

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San Diego Dorid (Diaulula sandiegensis) #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #nudibranch

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Lion’s Mane Nudi (Melibe leonina), with feeding net extended #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #marinelife #nudibranch

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do you live near Monterey? don't have v-day plans because the "holiday" sucks? guess what? I've been helping plan a spawniversary event for Sunflower Star Laboratory to celebrate the one year anniversary of when our Cupid Cohort was spawned & y'all should definitely come check it out 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

#tidepooling My first ever sorcerer's dorid nudibranch - Polycera atra. This is a juvenile (~15 mm long), and this species can get up to 3-4 cm; they feed on a single species of bryozoan, and live from N. CA to Baja and are often found while dockfouling. #socal 🦑🦀 📸Olympus TG6

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of luck finding Nudibranchs this winter - these guys were 2 weeks ago by Pigeon Point lighthouse.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

A three-lined aeolid nudibranch, Orienthella trilineata, in a #socal tidepool. These feed on hydroids, live from Alaska to Baja, 0-20 meters (?), and grow to about 35 mm long - though this one was a juvenile, only about 1 cm. #tidepooling 🦀🦑📸Olympus TG6

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Hunt Pastels on #Pastelmat 24 x 18 cm Slowly but surely I'm resuming my #pastel sea creatures project🦑 Here a Sea angel chasing a sea butterfly. #SeaAngel #SeaButterfly #SciArt #gastropod #mollusc #pastelart #MarineLife #nature #ocean #MarineBiology #Invertebrate #nudibranch

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I love this shop I found on etsy called Sunshine & Sea, they make the cutest nudibranch-themed items! I bought some sea lemon earrings & a necklace from them awhile back & now I have this gorgeous dirona magnet featuring the most adorable barnacles! 🌊🐙🦑🌿

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I posted this on my other account, but obviously it needs to be here: opalescent party! a friend was cleaning the underside of his neglected skiff & he lets me relocate invertebrates 🧡 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. Hermissenda crassicornis aka thick-horned or opalescent nudibranch. #dockfouling #hornednudibranch #nudibranch #nudibranchs #pnwwildlife #pnwwildlifephotography #pugetsound #salishsea #uwmacro #olympustg6 #washingtonwildlife #opalescentnudibranch

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

#nudibranchs are found all over the world, from the tropics to the poles. I found this guy in a river in New Hampshire!

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Another chromodorid nudibranch (sea slug) from the southern California coast - a California blue, Felimare californiensis! Incredible colors! Much more common than the purple MacFarland's, and larger, but ecologically similar as a sponge predator (e.g. 1st pic). 🦀🦑 #tidepooling 📸OlympusTG6

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What a wonderful day in the Cornish rock pools yesterday. A friend found two Babakina anadoni and the tiniest (~3mm) Discodoris rosi #ukrockpooling #underwaterphotography #nudibranch #seaslug 🦑

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing Red under Rocks on my #spineless meanders: #batstar rainbows, dwarf red sea cucumber (Lissothuria nutriens), red #sponge with purple sea urchins and Ophlitaspongia red sponge with red Rostanga pulchra #nudibranch and red egg mass (colored w sponge pigment) #marinelife #intertidal #invert

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

WHO LOVES TIDEPOOLING? 🤩🦀🐚

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

This is Coryphella verrucosa (formerly Flabellina verrucosa) chowing on a pink hydroid. Notice that the head of the anemone is covered in tiny little shrimp-like amphipods. #nudibranch #amphipod #macroPhotography #underwaterPhotography #scubaDiving #photography #olympus 📷 🧪 🦑

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Got to visit one of my dad’s favorite spots from when he was in college - the tidepools at Dana Point - and found my first Spanish Shawl nudibranch 🥹 🦑🐙🌿 #nudibranch

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

there's been a massive boom in opalescent nudibranchs (1,000's!) in our harbor & I suspect this has led to competition for resources as most have been small & there have been 100's of nudibranchs riding the surface tension of the water, likely trying to drift to new areas in search of food 🌊🐌🐙🦑🌿🌎

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

The white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch (Antiopella fusca) stands out in the tidepools due to its flashy colors. This one was moving with the incoming tide so most of it was blurry, but I love the detail on the rhinophores. #nudibranch 🦑 #oregontidepools

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Other shots of the beautiful white-lined dirona (Dirona albolineata) in my profile picture. It was about 3 inches long and was perched on some very dark kelp making for a nice photo op. 🦑 #nudibranch

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I'm missing low tide beach walks. #invertebrates #nudibranch #crab

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Fondly recalling my last #tidepool excursion at Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay. My first ever sighting of Hopkins Rose #Nudibranch! They feed on a dark pink bryozoan, hence the distinctive color. Note the feathery gills nestled in the rear end, and the 2 Rhinophores (sensory) up front.

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this post is a great demonstration of why common names can be tricky! these are gorgeous pictures of Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the thick-horned OR opalescent nudibranch, not to be confused with H. opalescens, also the opalescent nudibranch! how to tell them apart? let's talk about it!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This nudibranch has a heart shaped fluorescent part just behind its mouth. Loch Creran, Scotland. #nudibranch #scotland #MarineLife #nature #fluorescence

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Aeolidia filomenae Oostelijk dammetje (Oostbout) Peter van Bragt, 4/30/2012 website: https://www.blauwtipje.nl find our Blauwtipje app on android and ios #blauwtipje #nudibranch #aeolidia #MarineLife

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