new nudi book

Christmas is early this year for nudibranch lovers. There's an excellent new book out, "Field Guide to the Sea Slugs of the Tropical Eastern Pacific" by Yolanda Camach-Garcia, Terry Gosliner, & Angel Valdes. The area covered goes from the southern mexican border to northern Peru & the Galapagos Islands. There's a key to species based on color & other external characters, color photographs of all species, and the text is in both spanish & english. It can be ordered through the California Academy of Sciences http://www.calacademy.org/ or my favorite bookstore Seachallengers http://www.seachallengers.com/

Leslie, thanks for the tip, no one can have too many nudi books!

I hope you don't mind my adding another new nudi book here.

Dave Behrens also has a new nudi book coming out shortly.

Here is a the write-up of it from Bill Rudman:

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Nudibranch Behaviour

David W. Behrens

with photographers: Constantiine Petrinos & Carine Schrurs.

Published 2005

New World Publications Inc. Jacksonville, Florida.

ISBN 1-878348-41-8

176pp.

Price: approx $US 35

This excellent book is not only full of beautiful photographs, but full of information as well. It covers basic classification, and then goes on to discuss many areas of biology and natural history, including smell and touch, can they see?, how do they move? how and what they eat, defence, reproduction, colour etc. This is a valuable addition to your 'sea slug library' filling in the many areas of opisthobranch biology which are missing, or tantalisingly brief, in most nudibranch colour faunal guides.

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It hasn't been announced at Sea Challengers, but if you email them they'll send a special pre-order form for it.

link: http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=brbehre2

We should add that Dave is coming out with a new edition of his classic Pacific Coast nudibranch book as well. A special pre-order form is also available for this one by emailing Sea Challengers.

slightly off topic: re sea challengers. Have you, Leslie or others had any trouble ordering direct from the webpage? I almost always get script errors using either IE or Firefox.

Only once several years ago when they had a server problem. Every other time has been fine using Mozilla or Foxfire. I just received another order last week.