Northwest Dive Club

So tried to go to the Alki Pipeline today, but unfortunately, we arrived at a very low tide, so my buddy and I were walking even out past the buoy. But we were hankerin' for a dive, so we headed out to where we could drop and decided to see what was out there. We found some lovely eelgrass beds with plenty of bugs in em, as well as a few other critters. Might notice the quality is a little below average, but considering the deepest we only got was 12 feet, buoyancy was a little off, and every time I stopped moving, my feet tried to drag me to the surface lol.
I don't know what this guy is, he wasn't in my copy of Lamb & Handby. Someone really needs to publish a book devoted to Jellyfish. This was the best shot I got, as we were both kinda wandering in the water. You can't see it very well, but he's got four lobes. He was about three inches long.
Out past the eelgrass, we found these guys just absolutely covering the algae on the sand. I went through out book, but found nothing. Any ideas anyone?

They are some type of a Nudi. Perhaps a juvenile?
Hope someone else chimes in.
K

there were some adult shaggy brown mouse nudi's out there last time... maybe they are baby shaggy's

Lol could be a possibility. Maybe we should find some Shaggy mouse eggs and hatch em to find out.

Chenari wrote:Lol could be a possibility. Maybe we should find some Shaggy mouse eggs and hatch em to find out.

Okay, but it's your turn to sit on them!

So anyone have any idea what the Jellyfish might be? Or maybe a positive ID on the nudibranch?

Keeping in mind I'm neither a jelly-person or slugophile, the only jelly I know of with lots of red eyes around the margin like that is Polyorchis penicillatus. And the slugs look like Eubranchus rupium.

I'm not sure either one is right, Greg. As far as the Jellyfish, the knob on top looked like a natural part of the fish, so I'm putting that in as an important part of the Identification. And as far as the nudibranch, the pictures I'm finding on Google don't look right to me. For one, they don't have that frosted glass look the ones I found do, cause every single one I found had a ton of white speckles all over the cerata.

Now, I found another Nudibranch I believe to be the same species on a second unsuccessful dive (Never going back to the Pipeline again after that) among some seaweed, and I believe it to be the same as the ones I found on the ground, so I'm hoping these images might help ID it. And in the lower right corner, that's the tip of my glove for size reference.

I agree it doesn't look like the ones on the web (which are mostly from Europe) but your critter does look like the picture in Behren's book, and he says "cerata are frosted white with green cores".

Like I said before though, I'm not a slugophile (nor do I play one on TV)

Greg Jensen wrote:I agree it doesn't look like the ones on the web (which are mostly from Europe) but your critter does look like the picture in Behren's book, and he says "cerata are frosted white with green cores".

Like I said before though, I'm not a slugophile (nor do I play one on TV)

Eubranchus rupium was my first thought, based especially on Behrens. Obviously, my daughter doesn't agree, but it's her prerogative to be wrong