Nudibranch, Pixie Pinnacle, GBR

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Sunday, July 22. 2007

This beautiful nudibranch, Chromodoris elisabethina, or possibly , Chromodoris annae, was one of several different species we found at Pixie Pinnacle during our Minke trip.

The distinctive broken black stripe down the back is usually associated with ... elisabethina. See my previous entry for Chromodoris annae which clearly has no black markings. Please let me know your thoughts on the identification.

Pixie Pinnacle is an amazing site near Ribbon Reef #10. The pinnacle itself presents an amazing array of life and will often be the most attractive part of the dive. It is worthwhile though exploring the scree and rubble at the pinnacle's first base where we found a diverse world of small critters including Nudibranchs and Mantis Shrimps.

This little guy was down in the scree and rubble at 20m and reminded me of PNG "Muck Diving".

Until the next post, take care out there and keep diving ( if that's what you do! ) ...Robert

Photo: Robert Rath C5060 1/90s at f/4.8 ISO200 Inon UCL165AD Macro Lens and D2000 Strobe

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Another wonderful photo - and this one won you second place in the Mike Ball photo competition.

You're a hero!

Yes, those places were very reminiscent of PNG's muck dive sites.

SC xo

#1 Scuba Cailin (Homepage) on 2007-07-23 13:12 (Reply)

on your nudibranchs picture it is actually called CHromodoris Annae

#2 kaitlin on 2008-04-30 11:28 (Reply)

Thanks Kaitlin,

I was not sure due to the distictive brocken black line down the back which is typical of Chromodoris elisabethina. I have an earlier entry for Chromodoris annae which has no stripe, see http://www.robertrath.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/49-Photo-Of-The-Week-Nudibranch,-Milne-BAY,-PNG.html
I will update my entry to reflect this observation.

Thanks,
... Robert

#2.1 Robert (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 13:06 (Reply)

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