Monday, October 4, 2021

Species List: 03-10-2021, Fish Cage to Rotunda, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Sunshine Coast, Qld.

38 species sighted at Fish Cage to Rotunda, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Sunshine Coast, Qld. 03-10-2021.

A single solo shore entry dive, day come night with Gary of 241 minutes. Maximum depth 5.9 m, 23 C water temperature, up to 5 m viz.

End of long weekend getting before everyone goes home! Another epic dive this time 37 species and what looks like a new species Eubranchus sp. 22 complete with distinct brown spots. Elliot swam past me free-diving and waved...he said he found a Euselenops luniceps on the sand! Damn! The Philinopsis falciphallus was the largest I have seen, as long as my finger. Not many Bubble shells today, one live Retusa amphizosta and a Liloa brevis shell that blew anyway before I could shot it. And the water temp was 23C the whole dive. 

Species and number thereof sighted
* Species with highest specimen count

Berthella stellata -1
Colpodaspis sp. 2 -8
Costasiella kuroshimae -5
Cratena lineata -19
Doto sp. 3 -3
Eubranchus sp. 10 -1
Eubranchus sp. 22 -1 NEW SPECIES
Facelina sp. 11 -1
Flabellina lotos -6
Goniobranchus daphne -14
Goniobranchus geometricus -2
* Goniodoridella savignyi -36
Goniodoridella sp. 1 -28
Goniodoridella sp. 7 -1
Goniodoridella sp. 9 -1
Hypselodoris obscura -3
Knoutsodonta maugeansis -1
Liloa brevis shell -1
Limacia ornata -1
Lophodoris sp. 1 -1
Philinopsis falciphallus -1
Philinopsis speciosa -2
Placida kevinleei -1
Plocamopherus ceylonicus -1
Polycera sp. 1 -2
Retusa amphizosta -1
Tenellia sp. 23 -1
Tenellia sp. 24 -1
Tenellia sp. 32 -1
Tenellia sp. 44 -8
Tenellia sp. 47 -1
Thuridilla carlsoni -7
Trapania brunnea -1
Unidentia sp. 1 -12
Unidentia sp. 2 -1
Unidentia sp. 3 -6
Unidentia sp. 4 -1
Unidentia sp. 14 -22

Entry

Surface

Substrate

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Knoutsodonta maugeansis 

Polycera sp. 1

Flabellina lotos

Unidentia sp. 14

Goniobranchus daphne 

Goniodoridella sp. 1

Limacia ornata 

Thuridilla carlsoni

Unidentia sp. 1

Substrate

Substrate

Goniodoridella sp. 1

Unidentia sp. 14

Placida kevinleei

Berthella stellata 

Berthella stellata and egg mass

Flatworm

Goniobranchus daphne

Goniodoridella savignyi

Tenellia sp. 47

Doto sp. 3

Goniobranchus geometricus

Unidentia sp. 1

Unknown Nudibranch egg mass

Unidentia sp. 14

Flabellina lotos

Unidentia sp. 2

Goniodoridella savignyi 

Hypselodoris obscura mating pair

Goniodoridella sp. 7

Substrate

Costasiella kuroshimae 

Costasiella kuroshimae 

Costasiella kuroshimae 

Unidentia sp. 1 

Substrate

Tenellia sp. 32 x2

Eubranchus sp. 10

Goniobranchus geometricus

Cratena lineata

Lophodoris sp. 1 

Tenellia sp. 23

Colpodaspis sp. 2

Retusa amphizosta 

Tenellia sp. 24

Thuridilla carlsoni

Flatworm

Plocamopherus ceylonicus

Colpodaspis sp. 2 

Philinopsis speciosa

Philinopsis speciosa

Goniodoridella savignyi

An old friend

Thuridilla carlsoni



Unidentia sp. 4

Unidentia sp. 3 

Another friend

Thuridilla carlsoni

Doto sp. 3  x2

Polycera sp. 1

Tenellia sp. 44

Flatworm and Lamellaria

Unidentia sp. 14

Philinopsis falciphallus

Philinopsis falciphallus

Cratena lineata

Trapania brunnea

Cratena lineata

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Eubranchus sp. 22  NEW SPECIES

Tenellia sp. 32 and Tenellia sp. 44 x8

Tenellia sp. 44 x3

Tenellia sp. 32

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