During our recent trip to God's Pocket, Peter found a small (about 1 cm) nudibranch which appears to be a Doto species. I don't think it's an amyra, from the photos I could find, but I'm not sure what it was. Can anyone help with identification?
ID help with nudibranch
ID help with nudibranch
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Re: ID help with nudibranch
Afraid I can't help you with the ID, but my wife and I have penciled in a trip to Gods Pocket for August. Can you do a write-up on your experience at Gods Pocket and either post it PM it.
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I'm working on the report -- being that it's one of mine, it's wordy
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Re: ID help with nudibranch
I'd call it Purdius-Nudibranchius-LCF
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Re: ID help with nudibranch
I'm thinking it's a Stubby Dendronotid or from the stumpy looking things, perhaps a Hammerhead Doto...or a Spotted Triopha. My book, "Eastern Pacific Nudibranchs" doesn't seem to have anything like it and it is hard to tell gill area and other markings.
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Re: ID help with nudibranch
I'm pretty sure it's not a spotted triopha -- they don't have the large, irregular cerrata. And I don't think it's a Doto amyra (hammerhead doto) because all the photos I can find of those have very regular, christmas-tree shaped cerrata, with regular white spots. I agree that it's unfortunate that you can neither see clearly defined rhinopores nor gill plumes in the photo, and neither of the pictures Peter got show them.
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Re: ID help with nudibranch
Lynn, You stumped the experts! here is what Dave Behrens had to say.
"I have no idea about the Dendronotus - maybe a wild D. venutus (=D. frondosus)"
"I have no idea about the Dendronotus - maybe a wild D. venutus (=D. frondosus)"
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