Unidentified nudibranch

Here it is - I found it happening on the back of dead leaf at about 20 meter at Angel's window at Lembeh

a bit more detail......

Cotton balls?

HOW KEWL!!! That's really nifty. I have no idea who it is or what kind of eggs it's eating. The long cerata look like aeolid but some arminids have them too. SEND IT TO BILL!!!!! NIFTY!!!!!

WOW

OMIGOD. These are the coolest things I've seen from the slug family in a long while: I didn't even perceive them as slugs at first! Their body looks like a Phyllodesmium, but does not appear to have zooxanthellae in their cerata, and appears to have cnidosac at the tip of the cerata, which Phyllodesmium do not. New genus, perhaps. Way cool.

Cheers,

Marli

I have tracked this down. Terry Gosliner had a look and he says it's an undescribed Tergipes, and those are its own eggs.

Cheers,

Marli

Very cool!

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Well done.

Goes to show folks should take pictures of those strange things. You never know.

It's own eggs? Wow, I didn't know any nudibranchs laid discrete packets instead of continuous ribbons or chains. What a neat animal.

Here is a link to Bob Bolland's photo of the same or similar animal in Okinawa:

http://www.rfbolland.com/okislugs/terg_sp1.html

Cheers,

Marli

Looks like it will be called a Cuthona when it's described. It's been found in PNG, Okinawa, and the Philippines.

Marli