Nudibranch Lovers

[Tjack]

Japanese for nudibranch is nudiblank …. sorry joking it is pronounced UMIUSHI

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I figured someone must eat them

 

[Searcaigh]

Not so sure they are edible, I understood that they are loaded with toxins from the stuff they eat, and the bright colours are a signal to other marine critters that they don't taste nice.

Mind you if anyone ate them I would put the Japanese at the top of the list

 

[Tjack]

Not so sure they are edible, I understood that they are loaded with toxins from the stuff they eat, and the bright colours are a signal to other marine critters that they don't taste nice.

Mind you if anyone ate them I would put the Japanese at the top of the list

Let's hope they don't take a liking to 'em?

Hope my Japanese friends don't take offense but y'all do eat some exotic stuff.

 

[Searcaigh]

Had a meal in a cuttlefish restaurant in Tokyo many years ago, all you can eat as long as it is cuttlefish.

The 21' long noodle in brown sauce was a bit disconcerting

 

[Tjack]

Uh Oh, further research reveals they do eat 'em, Sea Hares at least.....

 

[Searcaigh]

Some nudi shots from Spain, taken last weekend during my business trip to Barcelona, all the same species Flabellina affinis (I think)

Dive site was some underwater canyons near Llafranc on Costa Brava.

 

[Luko]

from recent trip to Lembeh; early august 2014.
all pics below were taken by my daughter



Ceratosoma ?? by mel by Wisnu Purwanto Family, on Flickr




Hypselodoris emma by mel by Wisnu Purwanto Family, on Flickr







Flabelina exoptata 2 by mel by Wisnu Purwanto Family, on Flickr



Nudi TBD by mela by Wisnu Purwanto Family, on Flickr

Nice shots Wisnu (btw, 10 days after I contacted you, it happens I had my spare 7D camera flooded -again- in Alor).

Let me try some Id.
I would bet on Ceratosoma Gracillimum on the first nudi above, because of the lack of mantle edge. past the rhinophores.
I woudl beg to differ on your second image and recognize a juve Hypselodoris Nigrostriata
Third small yellow folk is most probably Jorunna Parva.

 

[Luko]

I'm back from Bali which was very fruitful nudiwise, I would say "as usual" when speaking of Bali and nudis, but a little less photowise (check my status). For a start, I'll request your assistance for ID on this flabellina? favorinus? cratena? other?

 

[DENLASCUBA]

Blue Dragon, Pteraeolidia Ianthina- Myanmar
Chromodoris Annulata- Myanmar
Wart Slug- Myanmar
Coriocella Hibyae, Gummy Slug- Myanmar
N/A- Mynamar
Gas Flame, Bonisa nakaza- Phuket Thailand
Halgerda - Myanamr
N/A- Phuket, Thailand
N/A Phuket, Thailand
Unknown- Myanmar
N/A- Myanmar
Phyllidiidae, Reticulidia Halgerda- Phuket, Thailand
Pleurobranchus Forskali, Carnivorous Sidegill Slug

Also in regards to eating Nudis yes most are filled with toxins that could have adverse effects on your body, they absorb alot of their surroundings, and some have the capability of taking on stinging cells from various aquatic life/coral/plant life such as hydroids. You shouldn't handle them as it can be easy for them to sting, or contract toxins from these creatures. I do help collect specimens on trips in Myanmar for researchers and only use gloves to handle them. Also once they are removed from the sea they do not keep well and will die quickly as you need to know what they feed on to keep them alive, or you must preserve them in an ethanol solution which you would then not be able to ingest them after.

 

[Wisnu]

Nice shots Wisnu (btw, 10 days after I contacted you, it happens I had my spare 7D camera flooded -again- in Alor).

Let me try some Id.
I would bet on Ceratosoma Gracillimum on the first nudi above, because of the lack of mantle edge. past the rhinophores.
I woudl beg to differ on your second image and recognize a juve Hypselodoris Nigrostriata
Third small yellow folk is most probably Jorunna Parva.

Hi Luko
Sorry to hear your 7D flooded again. Probably it's time to get totally new system; it's worth to install the vacuum leak detector.

Re. the a/m nudi, I agree with the Ceratosoma Gracillimum and the Jorunna parva. Both ID have been updated.
For the second image, although I'm not sure, seem closer to H. emma rather than H. nigrostata.