Anybody good with Nudibranchs??

[Chad_Ordelheide]

I saw this one last Monday, but I don't know the name!

Clear & Yellow Nudibranch

 

[Hank49]

Helmut Debelius has a very good book of Nudibranches of the Indo Pacific and Indian Oceans. I bought one in the Philippines so maybe it's near you too.

 

[Diver0001]

My guess would be Halgerda malesso or something from the same Genus.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=halgmale

R..

 

[Vie]

Helmut Debelius has a very good book of Nudibranches of the Indo Pacific and Indian Oceans. I bought one in the Philippines so maybe it's near you too.

Neville Coleman’s 1001 Nudibranchs (Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs) is another good ID book.

 

[Vie]

I saw this one last Monday, but I don't know the name!

Halgerda malesso is probably right. OTOH, the Halgerda malessos pictured in Debelius is very different from the ones shown in the seaslugforum.

 

[Chad_Ordelheide]

Question: Do Nudibranchs and Seaslugs not have common names. I have only seen scientific names posted?

 

[Mo2vation]

Question: Do Nudibranchs and Seaslugs not have common names. I have only seen scientific names posted?

* Little White and yellow guy

* Little stripped blue guy

* Two horned little orange guy

* Watermelon Jellybelly colored guy

* Little furry FedEx colored guy (AKA: Spanish Shawl, AKA Nudibranchus Shawlspanishus, I think...)

* Fat little yellow cotton tail guy



you know - common names. The most common names for Nudi's are "little" and "guy". :11ztongue





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Ken
Dr. Science

 

[Vie]

Question: Do Nudibranchs and Seaslugs not have common names. I have only seen scientific names posted?

Some do have commonly accepted name, i.e. Hexabranchus sanguineus/Spanish Dancer. Neville Coleman gives them common names in his book but I think he just makes them up as he goes along.

 

[Kim]

Neville Coleman gives them common names in his book but I think he just makes them up as he goes along.

Well I hope he's better at it than Ken!!!

 

[alcina]

Yup, common names aren't good...not only are half of them randomly made up, but they vary from area to area!