Nudibranch Central: Species List: 03-10-2019, Fish Cage, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Qld.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Species List: 03-10-2019, Fish Cage, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Qld.

24 species sighted at Fish Cage, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, La Balsa Park, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 03-10-2019.

A single shore entry dive by Gary, Brenton, Thorne and Lilly of 154 minutes. Maximum depth 6.0 m, 22 C water temperature and up to 6 m viz.

Get in while the going is great! So off we went. This dive brought great surprises. Among those surprises Trapania scurra, Trapania brunnea, Plocamopherus pecoso, Polycera sp. and a new species Onchidoris maugeansis confirmed by Bob Burn. The river continues to impress!

Species and number thereof sighted
* Species with highest specimen count

Austrocylichna leucampyx shell -1
Bulbaeolidia alba -1
Cratena lineata -5
Dendrodoris denisoni -1
Doto sp. 6 -8
Eubranchus sp. 3 -1
Eubranchus sp. 10 -3
Flabellina lotos -4
Goniobranchus daphne -9
Goniobranchus sp. 6 -
Goniodoridella savignyi -17
* Goniodoridella sp. 1 -22
Gymnodoris sp. 22 -1
Hypselodoris obscura -20
Hypselodoris zephyra -1
Hypselodoris whitei -3
Onchidoris maugeansis -1 NEW SPECIES AND NEW RECORD FOR THE RIVER
Plocamopherus pecoso -1
Polycera sp. 1 -1
Pteraeolidia semperi -1
Tenellia sp. 23 -1
Thuridilla carlsoni -4
Trapania brunnea -2
Trapania scurra -2