Raffaele LivorneseChromodoris annae, Moalboal, Philippines
Nikon D90 in Hugyfot housing, Nikor 105mm, F/16, 1/160 sec. Iso 100, 2 X Inon Z240
with Emanuela Purificato
Marco Paravella molto bella
Nadia Chiesi Bella Raffaele ! :-))
Walter Bassi Wow Raffaele perfect colours beautiful subject
Iyad Suleyman Thanks a lot for nice words to Nimrod Shay, Miguel Angel Marquez Navarrete, Adriano Morettin, Niky Å Ãmová and Andre Snoopy Montenegro! ;-) I am glad you like it!
Iyad Suleyman Thank for 100 likes! :-)
Iyad Suleyman Thanks Gemma Gil for your comment... I hope to have even more likes... :-)
Manolo GarcÃa Very, very, very nice and great shot, love it
Erik K F Goossens cool stuff !
Iyad Suleyman Thank you very much,Manolo GarcÃa andErik K F Goossens! :-)
Concetta Quagliarulo Great! :)
Andone Egaña Aspiazu wooooowwwww!!!!!
Iyad Suleyman Thank you Andone Egaña Aspiazu and Concetta Quagliarulo!
Malida Alcazar But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran
Anilao, Philippines
Iris Dielhenn Malida, your quotation of Khalil Gibran is wonderfully fitting to your pic! :-)
Kristin Anderson Duelling Moridilla brockii. I've not seen nudibranchs "fight" before but the bigger one was totally chasing & whaling on the smaller one. Finally the smaller one was pushed (or jumped) off of this background and floated down to the sand below. I didn't get the sequence, unfortunately, as I was having some strobe issues. It all happened pretty fast - very cool to watch!
Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia
Rahul Meh-unpronouncable That is one hell of a photo!
Gary Cobb Nice work Kristin!
Gary CobbChromodoris annae has also been recorded "fighting" and actually tearing each others flesh away!
Kyle English i thinkk these ones eat other nudi's hence the hunt? great shot
Tini Palar great shot, very colourful
Bernard Picton I haven't got any papers here at the moment but I think this might be sexual behaviour. If so I don't know if it has been observed before but I remember that some Facelinids have strange penial anatomy and might use nematocysts to stimulate the partner.
Arnico Lumangyao Cartalla Hanging by the Moment
Maumere, Flores, Indonesia
Jon ChamberlainChromodoris annae Bergh, 1877, and quite an interesting colour variation with the orange central stripe
Arnico Lumangyao Cartalla thanks Bro
Arnico Lumangyao Cartalla this ones a little skinnier than the other one i saw before
Gary Cobb Gary Cobb It would be good to see a close-up of the blue part of the mantle. If this was Chromodoris annae (attached) there would be quite large pores in the blue. I would call this Chromodoris cf. colemani http://www.seaslugforum.net/chrcfcol.htm
Ahmet Yay Manado, Negri
Canon 40 D - Canon 60 mm macro - 2xYS-110 Flash
1/125, f:10 Asa:100
Joaquin Muñoz lindo
MarÃa Eugenia Suárez Name/nombre?
Giorgio Cavallaro (Y)
Ahmet Yay Thank you very much MarÃa Eugenia Suárez and Giorgio Cavallaro. Its name is Chromodoris Annae-2.
MarÃa Eugenia Suárez Great! Thank you, I collect the photos of nudis and I like to have them identified. Your photos are in my collection, I hope you don't mind.
Jon ChamberlainChromodoris annae or Chromodoris dianae? Found at 10m, Hoga, Wakatobi, Indonesia. It has the speckled blue mantle, think dark lines and orange mantle spots indicative of C. dianae but the rhinophores and gills are completely orange more indicative of C. lochi. Any thoughts?
Blogie Robillo If not C. dianae then maybe C. michaeli (but definitely not C. annae).
Jon Chamberlain Sorry I meant C. lochi not C. annae
Jon Chamberlain Excellent suggestion, definitely looks most like C. michaeli having had a look on SSF and nudipixel
Marli Wakeling This is a colour form of C. dianae.
Bernard Picton The two colour forms of C. dianae are probably separate species. Unfortunately both are included in the original description so this will make it difficult to say which one gets the name C. dianae. There is a good thread on SSForum re. this.
Ryan Pearson Time for a test... I've just returned from the Philippines having dived off Malapascua Island and Moalboal - both in Cebu. Here are some of the gastropods I found on the dives... who can ID the most? :P
Ryan Pearson PS. Not all my finest photo's, and I know there are some double ups :)
Blogie Robillo Nice collection, Ryan! I didn't see #9 in Malapascua...
Christopher Thorn Hi, are these all colour variations of C. magnifica? All individuals photographed on 27/5/12 at Water outlet, Kending, Taiwan. 10 m. 30 - 50 mm.
Blogie Robillo The pair on the lower right are Chromodoris annae.
Christopher Thorn Thanks Blogie, I checked that out on theseaslugforum, seems you are right; they exhibit the pitted blue coloration if c.Annae. Do you think the others are C.magnifica?
Blogie Robillo The upper-right photo shows C. magnifica, but the other two...I'm not sure.
Christopher Thorn Ok, thanks for your input as always:-)
Christopher Thorn upper right also resembles C.elisabethina doesn't it?
Blogie Robillo If I'm not mistaken, C. elisabethina does not have a white mantle outline...
Franca Wermuth-Vezzoli Could the one on the upper left be Chromodoris colemani?
Franca Wermuth-Vezzoli I read somewhere that usually the nudibranchs of the same species are seen together - but especially for the first picture I would guess Chromodoris cf colemani and Chromodoris annae. Any comments are appreciated.
Franca Wermuth-Vezzoli Camiguin Island, Philippines. Please help to identify. Thanks a lot.
Antonello Nazareno .... Chromodoris dianae ....
Antonello Nazareno ... blue phase ...
Lindz Warren Possibly a pale Chromodoris annae Bergh, 1877?
Roy Arthur David LontohChromodoris michaeli?
Marli Wakeling C. annae. The spots are the clue.
Erwin Koehler the orange tipped gills are not of C. annae,
I go with C. dianae
Franca Wermuth-Vezzoli Thanks Erwin, I didn't look at the gills so far and now I learnt to differenciate the two Ch dianae and annae. But.. how about C michaeli? There are these darker patches behind the rhynophores and in the middle (similar to http://www.nudipixel.net/photo/00030690/3/). What do you think?
Lindz Warren definitely C. michaeli Gosliner & Behrens, 1998. See http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk115.htm
Lindz Warren Likewise but have a read of the slugsite description of C. michaeli.
Lindz Warren It is a tricky little number :)
Lindz Warren Hopefully Terry Gosliner and Dave David Behrens will sort it out!
Gary Cobb In my opinion is looks more like Chroomodoris annae. The gills are not orange tipped, only the very lowest and inside part have white. C. dianae never has yellow on the anterior and posterior ends of the margin and as Erwin said only the gill tips are yellow. This animal has pits inside the black lines which looks more like C. annae, C. dianae has what appear to be pits all the way to the margin. In closing I would say this animal looks more like C. annae. :)
Gary Cobb I have looked closely at the central region of the mantle and am having second thoughts. This area looks more like frosty mottling with transparent and opaque white speck versus pits. Because this animal has what appears to be both traits I would call it Chromodoris cf. annae
Gary Cobb A high resolution photo of the central region would tell for sure. Thank you for listening.
Terry Gosliner Looks like a Chromodoris michaeli to me, but it certainly has aspects of C. diannae. It could possibly be a weird hybrid as members of this group have been observed mating with different species.
Gary Cobb I agree with Terry this could be a hybrid.
Franca Wermuth-Vezzoli Thanks so much, Gary Cobb and Terry Gosliner, I'm really excited about this discussion and the outcome of it. It is so good to have this site, thanks a lot!