Just Terry and Julie on this afternoon/night dive of 1 x 98min in water depth to 5.8m, 10m viz and 20 C water temp (but that temp is only what the computer thinks!!).
Although we were hunting for ‘branchs it was nice to see numerous flowery soft corals and other octo-corals returning to this area, suggesting the river is slowly returning to pre-flood health. We have previously found juvenile and adult Pleurobranchus weberi, but today we finally found a “teenager” which bears traits of both life stages.
Number of each species sighted
* Species with highest specimen count
Flabellina angelvaldesi -2
Flabellina rubrolineata -2
Goniobranchus daphne -3
Goniobranchus sp. 1 -1
Goniodoridella savignyi -1
Goniodoridella sp. 1 - 5
Hypselodoris obscura -10
Pleurobranchus peronii -1
Pleurobranchus weberi -3
* Pteraeolidia semperi -22
Trinchesia diversicolor -1
Trinchesia yamasui - 1
Goniobranchus daphne
Goniodoridella sp. 1
Pleurobranchus weberi - adolescent
Pleurobranchus weberi - adult
Flabellina angelvaldesi?
Trinchesia diversicolor
Substrate
Goniobranchus sp. 1
