#Sea Slug

[dinosaurwithablog]

I love the unique lifeforms who live under water. This one is no exception!! It's a nudibranch. Its more commonly known name is a sea slug. These creatures are gorgeous!! I love watching this one use its head as a large fishing net to take a big bite to eat small plankton animals. The movement and appearance of this sea slug are spectacular!! They're very beautiful, don't you agree? 😁😍 Nature creates the most beautifully diverse creatures!!! 💚💚💚

ITS THIS THING TUESDAY

[spuddragon]

A dragon based on the sea lemon nudibranch!

[railroadz]

nudibranch boyfriends

[scuba-divers]

'fairies dont exist' WRONG❗❗cyerce elegans

[preventthetoast]

I was so confused at first! I thought it was a parasite of jellyfish. but this is so much cooler!! it is a jellyfish!!

Wake up, babe. New MBARI species just dropped. 🤩 

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight zone and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence.

With a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other, and colorful internal organs in between, the team initially struggled to place this animal in a group. Because the animal also had a foot like a snail, they nicknamed this the “mystery mollusc.”

The team first observed the mystery mollusc in February 2000 during a dive with the institute’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon offshore of Monterey Bay at 2,614 meters (8,576 feet) deep.

They leveraged MBARI’s advanced and innovative underwater technology to gather extensive natural history information about the mystery mollusc. After reviewing more than 150 sightings from MBARI’s ROVs over the past 20 years, they published a detailed description of this animal.

Learn more more about this dazzling new denizen of the deep on our website.

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[monstersovka]

sea ​​slug 💫✨

[moons-among-distant-stars]

woah!!!! THANKS!!!

apparently this guy is from the aplysia genus, a sea hare!! very cool!!! thanks!!!

i know halloween’s passed but trick or treat??

OUH I’m so sorry I don’t check this inbox very often… have Him since you had to wait so long!

[deltamothsblog]

the world is in peril, and people are hurting

but even so, we can take comfort in knowing we have creature of wet slop. grins.

source

[everydaylouie]

at the gig

[samimarkart]

goofy nudibranchs I found in my files

[augiebuns]

Fuckin love leaf sheep

Little dudes photosynthesise, like, they took one look at human taxonomic practices and said "lol, but watch this though"

You eat the sun ya little goobers, you're adorable and can do no wrong, I'll bite anyone who says otherwise

[briery]

Sea slug (Phyllodesmium macphersonae).

[herpsandbirds]

Green Grapes Sea Slug (Sacoproteus smaragdinus), family Limapontiidae, Tulamben, Bali, Indoneisa

photograph by Gede Ardha

[nightmarereverie]

Yumemiushi