just had the best nudibranch haul ever
okay final count is between 20-22ish species 👀👀👀👀 i'll upload pics here in a bit
(i'm new to IDing this one, so grain of salt)

white-spotted sea goddess (D albopunctata) I think!!
white-spotted dorid (D fulva)!
literally so many stubby-frond dendronotus (D subramosus)

both big and super tiny ones
graceful aeolid (A abronia)

literally so so so so so many of these
okay i have to do work for my paying job so more pics later today
SO MANY hilton's aeolids (Phidiana hiltoni)!!!!
this one is new to me!!!
rose-pink cuthona (Cuthona divae)
ofc saw a bunch of spotted triophas (Triopha maculata)
a million little three-lined aeolids (Orienthella trilineata)

(my finger for scale in the third pic)
only one branched dendronotus (Dendronotus venustus) today
many san diego dorids (Diaulula sandiegensis) !!!
a bunch of sea lemons (Peltodoris nobilis)

look at those gills!!!!
shag rug nudibranch (Aeolidia loui) !!
sorry found another rose-pink cuthona from today and needed to share
opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens) 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
very tiny laguna beach aeolid (Diaphoreolis lagunae) that i flipped over to get a better pic, but it got swept away by the waves so this is all i have 😂
some large (for these species) ones!

british columbia doto (Doto columbiana)
okay these are for sure a doto and i *think* they're hammerhead dotos (Doto amyra), and not BC dotos... so standby 😂
about a billion of these today

yellow-head aeolid (Diaphoreolis flavovulta)
a few olive's aeolids (Anteaeolidiella oliviae)

the one in the second pic was huge lmao
little red dorid (Rostanga pulchra)!!
low quality pic of a high quality monterey doris (Doris montereyensis)
a few of these beauties!

cockerell's dorid (Limacia cockerelli)
some Cadlinas, idk which species yet
??????
wow a babie
eggs???
small
ok tysm it was a good day
okay this is chan's dorid (Hallaxa chani)

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