Purple and yellow sea slug

Aegires villosus Farran, 1905 Location: Surprise Reef, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia Size: 20 mm Depth: 17 m Temperature: 21 C ORDER: NUDIBRANCHIA FAMILY: Aegiridae purple yellow white Photographs by Gary Cobb, David Mullins - Copyright 2003-2013

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Slimy sea slugs. Sea slugs are also known as nudibranches, which means naked gills. Sea slugs are commonly found in tropical oceans. Sea slugs are mollusks without shells and come in … Continue reading →

What animals do you think exhibit the most kaleidoscopic variety of colors and patterns in the wildest diversity of forms in the animal kingdom? Tropical…

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Sea slug - Sea snail - Zee naaktslak - Nudibranche

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Kryptopterus vitreolus, known in the aquarium trade traditionally as the glass catfish and alternatively also as the ghost catfish or phantom catfish, is a small species of Asian glass catfish.

A beautiful aeolid. These carry symbiotic algae in the tassels on their back. Like my pictures? There are more in "Sex, Drugs and Scuba Diving" and on my blog.

The most fascinating and colourful creature on earth has to be the nudibranchs or sea slugs. Always fascinated by the array of colour combination they demonstrate and the ability to camouflage. Almost a new species is found everyday. Up till now there are more than 3000 species known to human. Sorry for those who misread the title of this post, but this is a perfectly healthy page dedicated to the marine animals. Come on… Nudibranchs or sea slugs represent fascinating and colourful life…

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Pink, purple tipped in aqua with green.

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Purple Sea Slug (en). Flabellina Lila (es). Balearic Islands. Spain.

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