David, Terry and Gary on this excursion consisting of 1 x 83 minute and 1 x 72 minute dives in water depths up to 15.8 m, 20 m viz, 20 C water temp.
Another beautiful day for diving. This time we headed out to Bray's Rock and dived a site we hardly go to due to current. JJ's did have current but we managed to find some nice species like Verconia verconiforma, Aegires villosus and a very pale Phyllidia varicosa.
After that dive we headed north to Nudi 2. This is a beautiful site and produced quite a few species, of notice were Goniobranchus sp. 4 on it's finger sponge and Verconia sp. 2.
...and after the smoke cleared the three of us managed to record 40 species!
Number of each species sighted: 1st dive/2nd dive
* Species with highest specimen count
Aegires villosus 1/-
Ardeadoris sp. 2 -/2
Bornella anguilla 1/2
Chromodoris elisabethina -/3
Chromodoris kuiteri -/8
Chromodoris lochi -/1
Chromodoris striatella 1/-
Colpodaspis thompsoni -/1
Dermatobranchus oculus 1/-
Dermatobranchus rodmani -/1
Dermatobranchus sp. 7 1/1
Doriprismatica atromarginata 2/7
Flabellina exoptata 1/1
Flabellina rubrolineata -/2
Glossodoris vespa -/1
Goniobranchus albopunctatus -/1
Goniobranchus geometricus 1/1
Goniobranchus leopardus 2/-
Goniobranchus sp. 4 -/2
Goniobranchus splendidus 5/2
Gymnodoris alba -/1
Hypselodoris jacksoni -/1
Mariaglaja inornata -/1
Phyllidia coelestis -/1
Phyllidia elegans -/2
Phyllidia ocellata 3/-
Phyllidia varicosa 1/-
Phyllidiella annulata -/2
Phyllidiella lizae 3/1
Phyllidiella pustulosa 1/3
Pleurolidia juliae 1/1
Pteraeolidia semperi 1/-
* Sagaminopteron ornatum 3/14
Tambja amakusana -/1
Tambja tenuilineata -/2
Tritoniopsis elegans -/2
Tylodina corticalis -/2
Verconia romeri -/1
Verconia sp. 2 -/1
Verconia verconiforma -/1
Loading the ride
Substrate
Pleurolidia juliae
Dermatobranchus rodmani
Aegires villosus
Phyllidia ocellata
Bornella anguilla
Chromodoris striatella
Goniobranchus splendidus
Phyllidia varicosa
Surface conditions
Goniobranchus sp. 4
Substrate
Dermatobranchus sp. 7
Doriprismatica atromarginata
Verconia sp. 2
Phyllidiella pustulosa
Chromodoris kuiteri
Tambja tenuilineata
Gymnodoris alba
Flabellina exoptata
Tambja amakusana
Verconia verconiforma
Flabellina rubrolineata
Glossodoris vespa
Colpodaspis thompsoni
Tritoniopsis elegans
Goniobranchus geometricus
Goniobranchus leopardus
Verconia romeri
Phyllidia elegans
Goniobranchus albopunctatus
Chromodoris elisabethina
Tylodina corticalis
Phyllidiella annulata
Sagaminopteron ornatum
Goniobranchus sp. 4
Substrate
Mariaglaja inornata
Ardeadoris sp. 2
