More unidentified nudis!!!

[crab lover]

After too many long weeks without my dive buddy, Becky and I were able to hit the water again as a team yesterday at Firehouse! It was a great dive and we found two nudibranchs that I am unable to find in the Hoover's Book or anywhere on the net! The first one I thought may have been an egg sac of some sort, but after really getting a closer look, I saw that there were antenna/eye stalks coming out from the "front" and when I looked from the side, I could see where it had a bottom skirt. The macro on my camera is not the best, so the detail is not what I would like...

This is the one I found just as we entered cathedral from the topside...

another view...

yet another view...

top view...

you can kind of make out the skirt to on the yellow sponge

last one of that one...

Becky found this one when we went to the right towards Sharks cove...

side view...

a little fuzzy...

it's very pretty though!

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[crab lover]

That's not to mention the countless white margins, the scrambled eggs, and three HUGE golden laces! AND a Tom smith's!

 

[justleesa]

you have to send those to John! He'll love'em

Cool pics, Glad Becky is back in the water!

 

[friscuba]

Holy cow! I'd have never seen these. I wonder how many different nudi's I'm missing everyday.

 

[sea nmf]

Yes, when I was getting my tanks filled, I looked in Hoover's book and didn't see them. But my memory isn't what it should be.

Fun to find things I've never seen before. Oh, and if she gets to name the nudi's, the first one should be birthday balloon nudibranch, because the top looks like balloons and we were celebrating Jamie's birthday!

 

[NudiHuntrs]

Nice find! Thanks for sharing

 

[crab lover]

I posted the top one on Nudi Pixel and got a possible ID...
Ceratophyllidia africana!

 

[NudiHuntrs]

Nudipixel rocks:14:

Any idea about the identity of the second slug?

 

[crab lover]

Haven't submitted yet... wanted to see if I got anything on the first one before I did both!

 

[justleesa]

I posted the top one on Nudi Pixel and got a possible ID...
Ceratophyllidia africana!

Did they say if it is supposed to be in our waters or if it is an invasive species?