Carry Crab with Nudibranch
Ethusa sp & Glossodoris hikuerensis
I’ve seen many strange things, weird behaviour and odd critters while in Lembeh, but this is one of the most bizarre sights I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing… Now...
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‘Dumbo’ Snail
Strange Locomotion
Something strange caught my eye on a dive the other day. I was swimming along, looking for the usual Lembeh suspects when, in the corner of my vision, I...
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Peanut Worm
Sipuncula
Update: Thanks to Fabio Russo on the Underwater Macro Videography group, I have now been able to identify this as a Peanut Worm!! It is a bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented...
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Cigar Jelly
Olindias phosphorica
One of the strangest critters we occasionally see here it the Cigar Jelly. This is a cnidarian, class Hydrozoa. I must admit that when I first saw one of...
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Bullock’s Hypselodoris with Goby
Hypselodoris bullocki
Nudibranchs, as many of you know, do not always have the easiest of names to remember, There are so many of them and they tend to be called things...
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Bumpy Dendrodoris with Emperor Shrimp
Dendrodoris tuberculosa
This week we were diving at Jahir 2, one of our great muck sites. It the midst of the expanse of black featureless sand Jenly, our trainee dive guide,...
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Phyllodesmium poindimiei
Strange Insides
This is a Phyllodesmium poindimiei . I found it around 20m deep, moving along the sand. What made is really stand out was what I saw as I started...
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Brown-Lined Paperbubble
Hydatina physis
This has to be one of the most beautiful molluscs we get. It is circumtropical, but this is the first one I’ve seen in Lembeh. It is about 5cm...
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Red Bumpy Gymnodoris eating
Gymnodoris rubropapulosa
Beautiful but deadly!!! These stunning orange nudibranchs harbor an evil secret….they eat other nudibranchs alive!!! While most other nudis munch on algae, hydroids and other such stuff, these ones...
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Green Melibe – Eating
Melibe viridis
These large nudibranchs are carnivorous and have a great way of feeding. They throw their ‘head’, an oval veil, in front of them, and using hairs around the edge,...
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Egg Cowrie (juvenile)
Ovula ovum
As adult, Egg Cowries are not the most exciting of critters. Most divers would swim over one, as the do not ever seem to move, and are completely covered...
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Nudibranches Of Lembeh
Collection 3
Nudibranches, sometimes known by their much less attractive name of ‘Sea Slugs’ are one of the wonders of the underwater realm. Unlike their land-based cousins, these ‘slugs’ are incredibly...
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Elephant Nose Conch
You would probably swim over the top of one of these small sand-covered conch and never give them a second glance… ..but if you did, and they were hungry, you...
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Unknown Mollusc
This is, at the moment, an unknown mollusc. Barb had found a hole in a sandy/rubbly area and at the bottom were 4 or 5 weird white things crawling...
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Marten’s Sidegill Slug
Berthella martensi
This was the first one of these magnificant nudibranchs I have seen. It is really quite big, this one was around 10cm long, which makes it all the more suprising...
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Lembeh Magnum Sea Cucumber
Neothyonidium sp. 1
At first glance these you would not think these are Sea Cucumbers but, of course, they are… Their bodies are buried in the sand and they stick their heads and...
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Bobbit Worm
Eunice aphroditois
Bobbit Worms are a very strange nocturnal predatory worm. They have most of their bodies buried in the sand, with just their frightening looking pincers showing. I was patiently filming...
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Geographic Sea Hare
Syphonota geographica
Since I saw a photo of one of these wonderful Sea Hares I have been looking out for them. I found found this little one. It is about 3cm long....
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Spindle Cowrie
Phenacovolva tokioi
These beautiful cowries camoflague themselves on their host sea fans. They are really lovely mollusks to find. This one was particularly co-operative, as it had just reached the end of...
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Solar Powered Nudibranch
Phyllodesmium longicirra
Phyllodesmium longicirrum is probably the most spectacular of the aeolids which have evolved a symbiotic relationship with single-celled plants (zooxanthellae). It is exceptionally large, the shot with the two nudis,...
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Five-Lined Ribbon Worm
Baseodiscus quinquelineatus
The largest free-living worm in the sea is the ribbon worm. But for all their size, this is the first one I have seen here. This one was around 1...
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Nudibranchs
Collection 1
A collection of nudibranchs seen in Lembeh. The body forms of nudibranchs vary enormously, but because they are opisthobranchs, unlike most other gastropods they are bilaterally symmetrical because they have...
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Nudibranchs
Collection 2
A collection of nudibranchs seen in Lembeh. The body forms of nudibranchs vary enormously, but because they are opisthobranchs, unlike most other gastropods they are bilaterally symmetrical because they have...
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Moon-faced Nudibranch
Euselenops luniceps
I came across a strange writhing ball on a night dive this week. On closer inspection it was two Mooon-faced Nudis mating. One was dragging the other around until they...
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Weird Nudibranch
Melibe papillosa
This huge nudibranch only appears at certain times of the year. This one was about 40cm long. When I found it, it was laying eggs and remaining fairly stationary. After...
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Risbecia tryoni
Feeding
The Risbecia tryoni is a well known nudi, as it is often found ‘tailgating’ in pairs, with one very closely following the other. These ones were very unusual as I...
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Polyclad Flatworm
Pseudoceros sp.
These are often confused with nudibranches, but are, in fact, flatworms and completely different. They usually slide over the substrate, but occassionaly decide to go for a quick ‘flight’ They...
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Electric Disco Scallop
Lima sp.
Another creature that asks the question ‘why??’ Why on earth (or underwater) do you need to have an electric flashing light running up and down your body? Another bizarre...
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