fnfalman
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I saw tons of these suckers at Santa Rosa. Some were free swimming but most were planted on the giant kelp leaves doing heaven knows what - feeding or making whoopies?
Nudie experts please chime in - is this the hooded nudiebranch?
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Melibe leonina (Gould, 1852) : Hooded Nudibranch Phylum Mollusca / Class Gastropoda / Subclass Opisthobranchia / Order Nudibranchia / Family Tethyidae
They mate and lay their eggs on kelp fronds. I've never seen one on a paper plate before.
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They mate and lay their eggs on kelp fronds. I've never seen one on a paper plate before.
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fnfalman
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That's what the kelp leaves looked like.
And no hooded nudies were harmed in the making of this post.
It was a catch & release program.
And no hooded nudies were harmed in the making of this post.
It was a catch & release program.Melibe leonina (Gould, 1852) : Hooded Nudibranch Phylum Mollusca / Class Gastropoda / Subclass Opisthobranchia / Order Nudibranchia / Family Tethyidae
They mate and lay their eggs on kelp fronds. I've never seen one on a paper plate before.
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I've been to a couple of sites where these nudis swarm . . . our Edmonds Underwater Park has them by the hundreds in the eelgrass in the summertime, and there is a site on north Vancouver Island which reliably has similar numbers:
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fnfalman
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I've seen the eggs before on the kelp leaves but I must admit to never have seen the hooded nudies while they were mating on the leaves or swimming about until now. These things are so cool, I think that they are now my favorite nudies.
H2Ocean
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Really? No harmed nudibranchs, by removing them, transferring them to the deck of a boat, and back into the ocean, even if they were encapsulated in water the whole time?? I'm gonna try that!! New hobbie! Bring em all back, I didn't know they was as tough as old shore divers!
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fnfalman
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My column on the hooded (or lion) nudibranch:
Star Thrower Educational Multimedia (S.T.E.M.) Dive Dry Column
Star Thrower Educational Multimedia (S.T.E.M.) Dive Dry Column
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fnfalman
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Why not just do spear and release?
Because that's too much work. Wanna keep my SAC rate down.
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