A single night shore entry dive by Gary and Jens of 119 minutes. Maximum depth 5.8 m, 21 C water temperature and up to 8 m viz.
Since the water quality has been so good Jens wanted to conduct a night dive and off we went. Finding a dozen Tenellia sp. 24 on the sandy bottom was surprising. These animals were very small and easy to see if you got low and slow. As for me I was really focusing on the sandy bottom searching small small nudibranchs. I was rewarded with a new species of Sagaminopteron pohnpei, our 761st species. Another interesting fact of the river lately is finding Okenia liklik, nearly all accounts of divers in the river have seen this species. And finding another Mnestia sp. with it's banded shell made for another successful excursion in the river.
Species and number thereof sighted
* Species with highest specimen count
Atys sp. ? shell -1
Cratena simba -1
Facelina sp. 8 -1
Flabellina rubrolineata -4
Goniobranchus daphne -4
Goniodoridella savignyi -5
Goniodoridella sp. 1 -10
Hypselodoris obscura -3
Mnestia sp. 1 -1
Okenia liklik -1
Pteraeolidia semperi -1
Sagaminopteron pohnpei -1 NEW SPECIES
* Tenellia sp. 24 -12
Unidentia sp. 1 -3
Entry point
Jens about to go
Goniobranchus daphne
Substrate
Hypselodoris obscura
Cratena simba
Unidentia sp. 1
Unidentia sp. 1
Tenellia sp. 24
Tenellia sp. 24
Tenellia sp. 24 scale to finger
Okenia liklik
Tenellia sp. 24 pair
Atys sp. shell
Jen searching
Fish Cage - getting dark
Flabellina rubrolineata
Goniobranchus daphne
Goniodoridella savignyi pair
Sagaminopteron pohnpei NEW SPECIES
Sagaminopteron pohnpei NEW SPECIES
Tenellia sp. 24
Mnestia sp. 1
Goniodoridella sp. 1
Facelina sp. 8
Pteraeolidia semperi juvenile
