Tiny nudibranchs eating/laying? even more tiny spiral egg masses on the underside of the sand collar. Given that it’s preferred food is Harminoe eggs and those egg masses were all over where we found the Olea, my money is on these spiral masses being Olea eggs rather than their food (also the small aggregation of individuals) @anudibranchmom ID
I wasn't expecting to find this this morning, especially crawling on algae pretty much out in the open (it was almost under a rock ledge). Northern range extension from Carpinteria, CA. About 13 mm long.
2nd image shows the individual as found, on Obelia in a rock crevice in a low intertidal pool.
A cluster of three found at a depth of 25 m on sand/silt bottom. A rather rare nudibranch on the BC coast.
Quite exciting to find one of these little beauties. Really neat rhinophores.
Longer cerata than typical?
similar specimen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155674293
Amazing encounter watching this lizard biting snake. Snuggled up to tire after we stopped to look. (Not stuck or driven on!) Eventually all departed separately. Lizard ran down road full speed way up on its feet.
Limpet Nudibranch - Found on an eastern oyster
RA1
collected by Robin Gwen Agarwal on 2/18/2023
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149459575
emerged by 3/19/2023
Unclear if this emerged from a Feron sp or Andricus reticulatus gall
RA1
collected by Robin Gwen Agarwal on 2/18/2023
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149459575
emerged by 3/19/2023
Unclear if this emerged from a Feron sp or Andricus reticulatus gall
10 mm long. 2nd image shows as found, floating on surface of a low intertidal pool.
On right, with a F. trilineata at left for comparison. Both were from the same small tide pool. Scanned from a 35 mm negative.
In a post to the Sea Slug Forum (http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2621) I had identified these as F. bertschi, but after finding more in California, realized they were different from that Panamic species. Brenna Green's work, including genetics, pinned them down as a color variation of F. cooperi.
15 mm long crawling. 3rd and 4th images show it egg mass, 3 mm in diameter and filled with zygotes 90 microns in diameter.
Scyllaea sp #1 of Pittman & Fiene
Image by Ali Hermosillo of one of a pair of specimens I found under low intertidal coral rubble at Punta Mita in Feb 2006. CASIZ 174084. At the time this was only the 2nd record of this species outside the tropical Indo-Pacific (Camacho-Garcia et al. 2005, Field guide to the sea slugs of the tropical Eastern Pacific), and the 1st from Mexico.
Egg size (67 microns) and mode of development (planktotrophic) documented in Goddard & Hermosillo (2008, The Veliger 50:83-96).
Previously unsighted in the San Juans, to my knowlege. Grazing on Membranipora on kelp, on floating dock.
6 mm long crawling. Sac-shaped egg mass (3rd image) 0.9 mm wide. Zygote (4th image) 85 microns in diameter, shown with three mostly clear polar bodies in an egg capsule measuring 143 x 110 microns; a still swimming spermatozoon is visible at upper right in this image.
Point Loma kelp sites
60fsw
Dive site Old Airport/Kahekili Beach Park. Max depth 30ft/9m, avg depth 22ft/7m, avg temp 79F/26C.
Tiny surprise slug next to a bigger P. ocellatus.
Geitodoris sp. 3 of Pittman & Fiene
http://www.seaslugsofhawaii.com/species/Geitodoris-sp3-a.html
Esquina superior derecha
See parallels with this individual https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117221389
not sure about this one...
Five-footed Newt! Super awesome. Video: https://flic.kr/p/DHP8XU
The first photo is the cercaria stage shed from a planorbid snail collected from a pond at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. The second photo shows an infected Pseudacris sierra from the same pond.
10 mm long, found in low rocky intertidal 1 mi. north of Puertocitos.
12 mm long, found intertidally. Note paired egg sacs of endoparasitic copepod. Scanned from 35 mm slides.
Three of the many individuals of this species we found at this site. Scanned from 35 mm slides.
Trivettea papalotla was located on reef wall at a depth of approximately 20 feet. Length was not measured. Water temperature was 61 degrees F.
Doriopsilla davebehrensi was located underneath a boulder on reef at a depth of 10 feet. Length was between 2-2.5 cm. Water temperature was 67 degrees F.
Limacia janssi was located underneath a boulder on reef at a depth of 15 feet. Length was between 0.5-1 cm. Water temperature was 66 degrees F.
larger individual!
20 mm long, found with its egg masses on the underside of a cobble at low tide.
5 mm long. This is the southern form, with the orange lines on the body, described by MacFarland (1905) as Ancula pacifica. Found in northern Oregon during the strong 2015-16 El Nino.
Aplysia sp. was located under scroll algae of the genus Padina at a depth of 15 feet. Length was 1 cm. Water temperature was 78 degrees F.
I hypothesize that this is a sister species to Phyllaplysia padinae in the Eastern Pacific. Note that Phyllaplysia engeli is present in the Atlantic, but I hypothesize that P. engeli is sister to P. taylori in the Eastern Pacific. If these hypotheses are true, then this is an undescribed species.