{"id":2187,"date":"2023-04-12T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2187-critter-in-a-half-shell.html"},"modified":"2023-04-12T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:20:00","slug":"critter-in-a-half-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2187-critter-in-a-half-shell.html","title":{"rendered":"Critter in a Half Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2848 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1980-_MG_2287.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen you play the game \u2018what critter is that?\u2019 long enough you eventually start talking Latin. It\u2019s not by choice but most critters that live on the ocean floor are only known by Latin names.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis little guy, Tylodina corticalis, is a primitive notaspid (more Latin) or more commonly a \u2018side gilled slug\u2019 (finally some English!).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLanguages aside, I was caught unprepared when Andy found this beautiful yellow critter bearing its tiny excuse for a half shell, Ninja Turtle style. I was set up with my wide angle lens and tiny critters were not on my image agenda.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis style of image is called close focus wide angle and unlike common macro images provides great environmental context with the critter just millimetres away from my lens.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerfect for putting Latin in it\u2019s place or in English, a half shelled side gilled Ninja slug under Edithburgh Jetty.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Edithburgh #jetty #tylodinacorticalis #mollusc #critters #southaustralia #scuba #diving<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you play the game \u2018what critter is that?\u2019 long enough you eventually start talking Latin. It\u2019s not by choice but most critters that live on the ocean floor are only known by Latin names. This little guy, Tylodina corticalis, is a primitive notaspid (more Latin) or more commonly a \u2018side gilled slug\u2019 (finally some &#8230; <a title=\"Critter in a Half Shell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2187-critter-in-a-half-shell.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Critter in a Half Shell\">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-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}