Need a critter ID---please.....

[diver 85]

After being away a couple years--- I'm back........

Got to dive Manado, N Sulawesi(Indonesia) a couple weeks ago and getting some of my pics up and going...Need a critter ID please....Critter from an afternoon muck dive(as you can, I'm lazy--not looking up etc)....shallow dive on macro........tia......Joe

 

[Zef]

Looks like a nudibranch.

-Z

 

[diver 85]

Thanks Z------what kind is what I'm looking for( ie phylum/class/order etc)......

Guess I'm (also) lookin' for a good place to ID them...tia.....

 

[Searcaigh]

Glossodoris or Goniobranchus something, I'm too lazy to look at my books

Definitely a Dorid though.

 

[lexvil]

Scientifically I would call it a white nudi, expanded to a really cool looking white nudi

now maybe I’ll search nudis od Indo

 

[lexvil]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356940363_Illuminating_species_diversity_of_nudibranch_in_Indonesian_coral_reef_ecosystem_using_molecular_identification

 

[Searcaigh]

@diver 85

Any more information regarding the size of this nudi?

Any pics from the front end with the rhinophores in focus?

 

[Kupu]

Looking at the opaque white marks around the gills and in front of the rhinophores, and a hint of yellow on the mantle border.
I would guess Glossodoris pallida.

 

[tursiops]

 

[diver 85]

A BIG thanks to all----like in the past, ya'll are the best.....(some things never change......)