#limacia cockerelli

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cockerell’s dorid (limacia cockerelli) | source

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what oncce was one guy but now is twoo!!

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Limacia cockerelli

photography by meg mindlin

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Limacia cockerelli is a dorid nudibranch that grows to be about 2.5cm long and lives in intertidal and subtidal areas from Alaska to Mexico. Though the long papillae are similar to the cerata in aeolid nudibranchs, this species still has a tuft of gills on its back (not visible in the photo), characteristic of dorids.

Photo source - Ken-ichi Ueda

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So how DO you find nudibranchs in the wild—especially the teeny tinys? Search for slug suppers!

Many nudies are extremely food-specific—find their meal, and they’re likely to be queued up. Nudibranchs will often lay their eggs in and around their preferred meals. So if you find a sluggy omelette around the diner, you’re nearing a nudist colony!

1️⃣📷: Doto kya on a tuft of its preferred hydroids. This slug was about 5mm. Spotted by Jon Anderson.

2️⃣📷: Limacia cockerelli munching on bryozoans—the carpet of brown/green on the right of the image. These colorful slugs are surprisingly easy to miss in Monterey Bay, as the rocks are often pink, orange and red from anemones and algae. Spotted by Phil Lemley.

3️⃣📷: Polycera atra dorid laying a ribbon of eggs on its Bugula bryzoan brunch. Found by Kate Vylet.

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One of my favorite nudibranchs!

Limacia cockerelli 

Seiku, Washington

April 2018

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Cockerell's Dorid (Limacia cockerelli)

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Limacia cockerelli from my nudibranch yarn series. #yarn #yarnporn #yarnstash #yarnaddict #yarnstagram #knit #knitting #knitter #knittersofinstagram #instaknit #knitspiration #knitting_inspiration #knitstagram #mothyandthesquid #etsy #ravelry #sockyarn #sockknitting #operationsockdrawer #knitallthethings #knittersoftheworld #perthyarnfest17 #indieuntangled #glasgowetsy #indieyarn #yarndale #nudibranch #perthyarnfest #kendalwoolgathering #fibresharetribe (at Mothy and the Squid)

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The Cockerell’s dorid (Limacia cockerelli) wears the cloak...

http://dlvr.it/PTVhLp

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Limacia glow II by Jeff Goddard 32 Southern form of Limacia cockerelli, Hazard Canyon, Montana de Oro SP. http://flic.kr/p/R3KEbj

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Limacia by Ken-ichi on Flickr.

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Limacia cockerelli

This showy creature is the nudibranch Limacia cockerelli (Nudibranchia - Polyceridae), an attractive species with long tubercles down the middle of the dorsum, tipped with orange or red. It is usually 12 to 30 mm long; its body is white to yellowish, and the rhinophores (specialized sensory organs on the dorsal surface of the head) are also red or orange.

This species has defensive glands with huge vacuoles, similar to dermal formations located in the rim of the dorsal surface.

Limacia cockerelli occurs in the eastern Pacific, from Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada) to Bahia de Los Angeles (Baja California, Mexico).

References: [1] - [2] - [3]

Photo credit: ©Dan Hershman | Locality: Puget Sound, Washington, US (2008)

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The Cockerell's dorid (Limacia cockerelli) wears the cloak of its innumerable victims—orange carpets of minuscule bryozoans are rasped from their homes by a dagger tongue, and their colors adorn the slug's rhinophores and cerata as testaments to a terrifying taste test!

Beautiful photo by local photographer Joe Platko (Instagram: @hiimjoe88)

[mothyandthesquid]

Yeah, it's orange! Because Limacia cockerelli exists, it's orange-tipped glory should be celebrated!! 🍊 #yarn #yarnporn #yarnstash #yarnaddict #yarnstagram #knit #knitting #knitter #knittersofinstagram #instaknit #knitspiration #knitting_inspiration #knitstagram #mothyandthesquid #etsy #ravelry #sockyarn #sockknitting #operationsockdrawer #knitallthethings #knittersoftheworld #crochet #strikk #indieuntangled #glasgowetsy #indieyarn #miniskeins #britishwoolshow #perthyarnfest #knitandstitchrheged (at Mothy and the Squid)

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The Cockerell’s dorid (Limacia cockerelli) wears the cloak...

http://dlvr.it/PTPLSP

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All aboard the slug bus! This little kelp crawler is a Cockerell’s dorid nudibranch sea slug—and tucked away in the slug’s bulby branches is a red commensal scale worm along for the ride!

Cockerell’s dorids (Limacia cockerelli) feed on carpets of small animals known as bryozoans—their orange color derives from pigments in their food. Red commensal scale worms (Arctonoe pulchra) are avid hitchhikers that use sea stars, snails and slugs as convenient craft services to their next feeding ground.

The worms don’t bother the slugs, save for occasional pokes of the slugs’s gills that send the nudibranch into ticklish winces. The slug here is about an inch / three cm long, and the buddy pair was spotted just off the back deck of the Aquarium!