Spanish dancers are specialized predators that prefer to eat sponges and concentrate compounds found in their prey to provide their own chemical defense and defense for their eggs. Like .
Similar Images . If you live your life in saturated color, this is the sea slug for you. t pouring water on a campfire does not put the fire out completely. Nudi Bits: Spanish Shawl Nudibranch. Nudibranchs are in the Phylum Mollusca. Family: Flabellinidae. The name nudibranch is appropriate, since the dorids ... For example, the Spanish dancer nudibranch (genus Hexabranchus), among the largest of tropical marine slugs, potently chemically defended, and brilliantly red and white, is nocturnal and has no known mimics. Depending on conditions, you could have up to about three hours of low-intertidal time if you plan it right. Genus: Flabellinopsis. These two Spanish Shawl nudibranchs are eating Eudendrium hydroids in Monterey Bay, California. 717: 1-139., available online at Species: F. iodinea. ZooKeys. Similar Images . You can copy this taxon into another guide. Pictured below is Orange Conifer Jelly (Dacrymyces chrysospermus), which looks just like Witch's Butter, except it is bright orange and prefers conifer logs, instead of hardwoods. Add to Likebox #84118068 - spanish shawl nudibranch. The white body..#101286896 - Nudibranch on the coral Anilao, Philippines#110358861 - The nudibranch Thecacera Pacifica, sea slug in the coral reef..#151013438 - Spanish dancer, Hexabranchus sanguineus, isolated on blue water..#101233896 - Nudibranch on the coral Anilao, Philippines#139122943 - Phyllidiella pustulosa nudibranch crawling on the coral reef...#101234073 - Nudibranch on the coral Anilao, Philippines#110359308 - Bornella anguilla, Nudibranch, Sea Slug on the coral reef#148403517 - Ardeadoris averni nudibrach closeup photography closeup photograpy..#151013434 - Spanish dancer, Hexabranchus sanguineus, isolated on blue water..#151092143 - A close-up picture of a red and white Spanish dancer, Hexabranchus..#108065009 - Colorful nudibranch sea slug hovering, spanish dancer, Maldives#118907298 - A nudi branch on the bottom of a dive site next to Gili Meno,..#146733337 - The dovetail (Headshield Slug, Aglaja leech, Chelidonura hirundinina)..#148587443 - Ardeadoris averni nudibrach closeup photography in a Boonsung..#148403576 - Ardeadoris averni nudibrach closeup photography closeup photograpy..#61932768 - Dark-margined doriprismatica in Bali sea, Indonesia#61928733 - Geometric chromodoris in Bali sea, Indonesia#61928750 - Nudibranch Scyllaea fulva in Bali sea, Indonesia#60680516 - Underwater picture of Cuthona sibogae Nudibranch, Sea Slug#59709879 - buckwheat nudi with green peas and parmesan. Class: Gastropoda.
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hydroids—and therefore Spanish Shawls—are found in habitats with strong currents that deliver plenty of planktonic prey to their feeding polyps. Its vivid purple body, flaming orange cerata, and large red rhinophores are a beacon of color among the comparatively subdued hues of the surrounding algae, sponges and hydrozoans of the tidepools.
No—just photographing sea slugs! [Photo credit: M. Hartwood]ng kind of jelly! The Spanish shawl nudibranch(Flabellina iodinea) feeds on a species of hydroid called Eudendrium ramosum, which possesses a pigment called astaxanthin that gives the nudibranch its brilliant purple, orange, and red coloration. Commonly called sea slugs, a term that includes many other families of molluscan cousins, nudibranchs are shell-less marine gastropods that lose their shells when they transition from their free-floating, planktonic larval stage to the adult stage we typically see.