Nearly microscopic slug or worm found on kelp fronds.

[MaxBottomtime]

My fingertip for scale

I don't know if this is an opistobranch or a flatworm, but I can't find it in any of my books or online. Any guesses?

 

[T.C.]

No fair bringing electron microscopes diving.

You make people like me who don't have magnifers for their cameras feel bad.




My guess would be that it is something obscure- possibly a species unknown to science- though I'm sure the family is. Figure out the family and give it your first name.

 

[drbill]

My edumacated guess is that it is not a flatworm

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Kevin Lee passed his shots from Pt. Loma and La Jolla around to various experts and nobody seems to know. It's funny because it's a common animal. Kevin finds them all the time. The two I found yesterday were my first, but I'm no Kevin. I hope to be when I grow up.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

After hours of research I was able to tentatively identify the little guy as Vorticeros praedatorium.
Vorticeros praedatorium - Information on Vorticeros praedatorium - Encyclopedia of Life

 

[drbill]

I wouldn't have guessed it was a flatworm... but then I'd never be able to see it with my naked eye (or even fully clothed one) anyway!