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The greatest diversity of nudibranchs is seen in warm, shallow reefs, although one nudibranch species was discovered at a depth near 2,500 m (8,200 ft). [10] This nudibranch, described in 2024 as Bathydevius , is the only known nudibranch with a bathypelagic lifestyle and is one of the very few to be bioluminescent .
Bathydevius (Greek for "deep-living deviation") is a monotypic genus of unusual, highly distinctive nudibranch native to deep waters of the North Pacific Ocean.It contains a single species, B. caudactylus ("finger tail"), and is the only known member of the monotypic family Bathydeviidae.
Original – Nudibranch (Nembrotha cristata), a shell-less mollusc in the waters of Bunaken National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bunaken has a very rich coral ecosystem with about 390 species of coral. Reason Excellent depiction of the Nembrotha cristata in its natural habitat Articles in which this image appears
Chromodoris is a genus of very colourful sea slugs or dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs, and the type genus of the family Chromodorididae.Within the genus Chromodoris, there are currently 101 classified species.
Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the opalescent nudibranch or thick-horned nudibranch, is a species of brightly coloured, sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.
Jorunna parva, commonly known as the sea bunny, is a species of dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. The species was first described by Kikutaro Baba. [2] Its resemblance to a rabbit facilitated a surge in popularity on Twitter throughout Japan in 2015. [3]
Jorunna funebris, commonly called the dotted nudibranch, is a species of sea slug. It is a dorid nudibranch , which is a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae . [ 2 ] The genus Jorunna is composed of roughly 15 other species of nudibranchs, which feed on a variety of sponges.
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