On our last day diving in Egypt we saw this Ardeadoris Electra. I love the contrast between the white, green and orange.

A small (1 cm) elongated nudibranch with very irregular cerata. I think it is a Kabeira sp. and not a Doto orcha because that one has dark spots at the base of every cerata. But these species are very hard to determine. The picture is also special because the nudibranch got photo bombed. There are also at least 8 ghostshrimp in the picture. But I only saw those after the dive when checking the photo. How many do you count? ;-)

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A Polycera quadrilineata. Photographed in 2016 in Gulen, Norway. We have the same nudibranch here in the Netherlands, but in Norway you see more of them with these darker/black accents. For the rest there is just a lot of yellow in the picture.

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A beautiful nudibranch. A Costasiella but the exact species I could not find. Cerata with yellow, black, blue, black and again yellow. Photographed in Indonesia in 2019 and oh they are so tiny.
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A Perophora namei (Blue bell sea squirt). Under water you don't realy notice the beautiful colours. It's a colonial tunicate, forming clusters of small, bell-shaped individuals known as zooids and it is a filter feeder where each zooid possesses two siphons: an incurrent siphon for drawing in water and an excurrent siphon for expelling waste. Each zooid has a faint blueish colour which gives it it's common name.

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A Thecacera picta. A weirdly shaped orange (and black and white) nudibranch. Seen in Puerto Galera, Philipines on 15-01-2015.

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A Eurypegasus draconis or Seamoth. A really really weird looking fish. It sort of walks on the bottom of the sea instead of swimming though it is capable of swimming. And as soon as you get close with a camera it turns away from you. This one was seen in Dahab, Egypt on 20-04-2023.

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A Coryphella lineata. Seen in Gulen, Norway on 01-05-2016. A beautiful nudibranch in between some kelp. Gulen is about 2 hours drive north of Bergen and is a nudibranch Valhalla.

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A Tubulophilinopsis reticulata. Seen in Dahab, Egypt on 19-04-2023. I find it one of the weirdest shaped nudibranches in the oceans.

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