Tag: sea slugs

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chalk drawing of an aeolid nudibranch
Hermissenda crassicornis, opalescent nudibranch (rendered in chalk)

All photos in this post taken by me back in 2007!

Dorid nudibranch
Clown nudibranch, Triopha catalinae
Aeolid nudibranch
Janolus fuscus (not an opalescent nudibranch, despite looking kind of similar)
Dorid nudibranch
Diaulula sandiegensis, as best I can tell
Aeolid nudibranch
Flabellina trilineata
Dorid nudibranch
Some kind of sea lemon (there are two local species and I was shooting from about 4 feet away… no idea which one this was)

And some more on Sea Slug Day! It’s Terry Gosliner’s birthday.

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you know how some birders maintain a Life List of all the species they’ve identified? well I have that but for sea slugs (really opisthobranchs more broadly). I’m gonna add that as a page on my website because I can, because it’s neat, and because it’s funny1,2.

watch this space once I unpack my boxes of books3 and can flip through the books I probably tucked my active list into back in 2007. if I can’t find it I’ll reconstruct to the best of my ability, I think I was up to 25 species or something.

  1. did I draft this post in my head and only remember my URL when I actually started typing this sentence: yes ↩︎
  2. shoutout to nicky flowers for inspiring me to add more random pages to this website ↩︎
  3. home construction means I had to pack up four shelves of books so all of my marine science is temporarily inaccessible ↩︎