{"id":1486,"date":"2016-02-06T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1486-the-splendid-one.html"},"modified":"2016-02-06T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:17:43","slug":"the-splendid-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1486-the-splendid-one.html","title":{"rendered":"The Splendid One"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2068 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1315-_MG_8070-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMost sea slugs do not have common names and the fact that we call them nudibranchs is a nice way to divorce ourselves from the idea of their not so pretty, slimy green garden cousins.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf this little critter had a common name it might be the Splendid Nudibranch but in the literature it is just known as <em>Goniobranchus splendidus<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis species of nudibranch was the very first I saw dropping beneath the water on our Fly Point night dive at Nelson Bay. We saw many of them in the first 2-4m of water so it seems in this location they like the shallows more than deeper water.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always exciting meeting a new critter on a dive but at the same time there is a sense of detachment not knowing anything about it, not even its name. For me creating an image and then later taking the time to learn a little more about its name, its habitat and its behaviors is just as rewarding as the dive itself.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThank you Splendid One for posing for me and teaching me a little more about your world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;The Splendid One&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/22 ISO400 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most sea slugs do not have common names and the fact that we call them nudibranchs is a nice way to divorce ourselves from the idea of their not so pretty, slimy green garden cousins. If this little critter had a common name it might be the Splendid Nudibranch but in the literature it is &#8230; <a title=\"The Splendid One\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1486-the-splendid-one.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Splendid One\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}