Sea slugs are cute, beautiful and enchanting ✨🐌 But their name is just a colloquial umbrella term for many different ‘slug-like’ sea creatures. Let’s break it down once and for all! (Expand thread for typed version.)
#seaslugs #nudibranchs #sacoglossans #seahares #seaangels #marineanimals
A variety of corals, mostly purple, gray, and light brown, with Atlantic Sergeant Major fish swimming around. The water is aqua blue.
A Spotted Seahare in between two Purple Sea Fans.
A Zebra Dorid on a sandy sea bottom.
A mostly yellow Rainbow Parrotfish behind a coral.
Spent some time in Bermuda last week with my face in the water. It was pretty lovely, lots of #corals and #seahares and #fishes and even a #nudibranch.
Red/chestnut coloured sea slug moving over a calcified (white) worm tube in a rock pool. Head on . It’s sensory organs (rhinophores) look like ears hence its common name. They project dorsally from the surface of the neck. A pair of oral tentacles project forward. A small, inconspicuous eye is located at the base of each rhinophore.
Red/chestnut coloured sea slug moving over a calcified (white) worm tube in a rock pool. Head on . It’s sensory organs (rhinophores) look like ears hence its common name. They project dorsally from the surface of the neck. A pair of oral tentacles project forward. A small, inconspicuous eye is located at the base of each rhinophore.
So many tiny juvenile Sea Hares (Aplysia punctata) in the rock pools on the North Cornish coast. I stopped counting at 20 🦑
#rockpool #titdepool #seahares #intertidalmarinelife
