Okenia felis (patting ourselves on the back)

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alwaingold

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The itty bitty slug that we found at Point Lobos a couple years ago has now been officially pronounced a new species, in a paper describing it in last month's Journal of the California Academy of Sciences. It is called Okenia felis (Clinton's suggestion).

Rob posted a little blurb about it on the GUE website:
BAUE Divers Discover New Nudibranch Species | Global Underwater Explorers

And you can read about our adventures in slug finding in these two dive reports:
Cold Water Kitty: Adventure No. 12: "The Jaguar Slug"
Cold Water Kitty: A Dozen Needles in a Haystack

Just thought it would be nice to post something about DIR diving in practice rather than principle :)

Allison
 
That is awesome, great job.
 
Very cool! Congratulations!
 
If you go to the writeup on the GUE site, you can see just how tiny these fellows were -- If I'd seen them, I'm not sure I'd even have recognized that they were nudis at all, let alone a new species! Very great kudos due to the sharp eyes of Team Kitty . . .
 
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