Favoritos de anudibranchmom

Six mm long, one of two specimens found by Ziggy Goddard under cobbles while snokeling in shallow water. The cephalic tentacles of this specimen looked a little worse for the wear; I'm not sure if they were damaged moving it for these photos or not.

22 mm long. One of four found in an oyster reef matrix on a mixed mud/basalt shore inside Bahia Falsa near San Quintin.

Described by Millen and Bertsch in 2005 as D. behrensi, this species was determined to have been described 100 years earlier by Cockerell (in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905) as D. nigromaculata.

Pacifia goddardi was located at a depth of 35 feet on reef. Lengths were 1 cm. Water temperature was 56 degrees F.

Nudibranchs are commonly found near their food. In this image there appears to be one type of hydroid. The food source of P. goodardi is reported to be Bougainvillia-like species B (Goddard & Hoover, 2016). The thecae of this species have been observed to be sand encrusted and the hypostomes were salmon-colored. The thecae in the lower left of this image appear to match the description of the food source of P. goddardi, but in the present image the hypostomes of the hydroids appear lighter in color. It is not clear if the hydroids in this image are the food source of P. goddardi. Considering that this species has been found repeatedly at Point Dume during the last 5 years, and that 5 individuals were observed during this survey, Point Dume would be a good site for further attempts to document feeding behavior of P. goddardi.

Goddard, JHR, Hoover, CA. 2016. Distribution, seasonality, and prey specificity of Flabellina goddardi Gosliner, 2010 (Gastropoda: Nudipleura: Aeolidina). Nautilus, 130(4): 146-152.

Finally and at last, another specimen of this little beauty, which I first observed last November (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18597683). These are the only specimens of this species I have ever seen anywhere!

Shell 7.4 mm long, found on the underside of a low intertidal boulder, along with two small Conualevia alba and a good size Stenoplax conspicua (see 3rd image, which shows the clam as I found it after turning the rock). 4th image shows the cobble field where I found this specimen, as well as the two last November. The last two images are of this specimen relaxed in MgCl2.

Shell about 10 mm long. Found two on sand under a low intertidal boulder. Very extensible, active, blade-shaped foot and tentaculate mantle covering most of the shell. I don't recall ever seeing this species before, and with that active, white-striped foot, it was eye-catching. The last image shows one of the specimens as found, at the entrance to a burrow of unknown origin, but possibly constructed by Neotrypaea biffari, which are frequent in the boulder field at Naples Point.

The long foot, long tentacles, and mantle covering most of the shell place this little cutie in the Galeommatoidea.

Robin Agarwal (@anudibranchmom) was with me in the field when I spotted these and got a great video clip of one using its foot to move step-wise: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30314434@N06/31128212317

A species of freshwater goby which we found uplands on Negros Island, inland from Dumaguete. In a clear and clean creek, these were quite abundant. The males are metallic blue/green colored, the females brownish with stripes.

We found a dozen of these, up to 75 mm long, and with their egg ribbons, under intertidal cobbles in the outlet of the shallow lagoon backing Playa Pichilingue. The 6th image is of the site, taken in Feb 2020, when I returned and searched for but did not find any C. bramale.

These specimens represent the first record of this Panamic species from the the Sea of Cortez and the Baja California peninsula. It was not recorded by Orso Angulo-Campillo during his four year survey of opisthobranchs from Baja California Sur, including the La Paz area (Vita Malacologia 3: 43-50, 2005).

We documented the occurrence of C. bramale here in Goddard et al. (2018, Proceed. Calif. Acad. Sci. 65: 107-131, p. 112).