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Any ideas about this one?

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Any ideas about this one?

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  1. Colmani relative?

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  2. Lovely, excellent photo of a most unusual nudibranch.  I guess it may be a greedy and bloated Melibe engeli .   I will ask the nudi experts and report back.

    Edited by Kraken de Mabini
  3. Romblon M. Engeli photo

     

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  4. The Sea Slug Forum, as Chris Ross notes, has an excellent discussion by Bill Rudman and others, of Melibe engeli and associated Melibes such as the Melibe viridis: 
    http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/melienge

    and watch this one for fun:

     

    Edited by Kraken de Mabini
  5. Thanks for all the help. Found a similar photo in above article.
    Smart people on Wetpixel!

  6. As I mentioned above, I forwarded this nudibranch to Dr Terry Gosliner of the California Academy of Sciences and noted author of many books and articles on nudibranchs, who has just now replied:

    "I am pretty sure this is a regenerating M. colemani where the head has been chomped by some predator. "  
     

    Indeed, if one looks at the front part of this nudi with a magnifying glass, the forward cerata is not attached directly to the body but rather is floating, and there is no mouth, or head parts; they got chomped off! 
    Have any of you Wetpixelers seen something like this?
    What a great photo by Hulkster, with an amazing conclusion!  

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    Edited by Kraken de Mabini
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