Thread by @MaureenBug, just had the best nudibranch haul ever okay final count is between [...]

just had the best nudibranch haul ever

okay final count is between 20-22ish species

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Augen"> i& #39;ll upload pics here in a bit

(i& #39;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& #39;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)

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opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens) https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

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

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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 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

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some large (for these species) ones!

british columbia doto (Doto columbiana)

okay these are for sure a doto and i *think* they& #39;re hammerhead dotos (Doto amyra), and not BC dotos... so standby

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okay these are for sure a doto and i *think* they& #39;re hammerhead dotos (Doto amyra), and not BC dotos... so standby https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

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about a billion of these today

yellow-head aeolid (Diaphoreolis flavovulta)

a few olive& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s dorid (Hallaxa chani)

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