bluespotjawfish
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Anyone able to help with an ID - good or bad? It's about an 1" in length, found it on the glass tonight after lights out.
nudi ID help please - late night visitor
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Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
It is one of the Aeolid's nudibrachs. I would need a better pic but it looks like one of the Phidiana sp. . All "nukes" fed on other animals.
Phidiana - Google Image Search
Phidiana - Google Image Search
bluespotjawfish
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Berghia - Yeah! Not so scary in the light!
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
This Aeolid nudy has been mis-ID for years Lorraine. Meaning, mis-ID as a Berghia verrucicornis, when it is really a Aeolidiella stephanieae. Which means, those articles, books or websites have the wrong species in them.
The true Berghia verrucicornis has orange-yellow tips on the Cerata ( long sausage looking structures, which serve as gills and often contain the nematocysts, stinging or venomous cells, taken from when they eat Cnidarians, i.e , Corals, Hydroids, anemones etc.).
Berghia verrucicornis
Aeolidiella stephanieae
The true Berghia verrucicornis has orange-yellow tips on the Cerata ( long sausage looking structures, which serve as gills and often contain the nematocysts, stinging or venomous cells, taken from when they eat Cnidarians, i.e , Corals, Hydroids, anemones etc.).
Berghia verrucicornis
Aeolidiella stephanieae
bluespotjawfish
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Cool, still a good guy, right?