BeakerBob
New member
A good friend of mine got this and let me have it to take some pictures as it is yet unknown what type of nudibranch it is. For lack of a better name, I am calling this nudi "Hoover".
It has a thin flat body about 3" in length with "leafs" sticking out of its back and fluffy eyes that protrude on the end of eyestalks. Hoover can attach itself to objects using its bottom flat edge, but is very comfortable swimming. It has a huge round mouth filled with cilia around the inside lip. As it feeds, the mouth gets about as large as a 50 cent piece, the cilia extend outward like a broom, and it scrapes the surface drawing in food. As the mouth closes, the cilia retract back into the mouth capturing anything it caught.
Here are some pictures:
Whole monti nudi shot
Closeup of mouth and eye:
Here is a series of it feeding:
Rearing back and opening its mouth....you can see the retracted cilia:
Head starting its downward movement:
Still moving downward towards the surface:
Mouth now in contact with the surface:
Cilia now extended to vacuum the surface for food:
It has a thin flat body about 3" in length with "leafs" sticking out of its back and fluffy eyes that protrude on the end of eyestalks. Hoover can attach itself to objects using its bottom flat edge, but is very comfortable swimming. It has a huge round mouth filled with cilia around the inside lip. As it feeds, the mouth gets about as large as a 50 cent piece, the cilia extend outward like a broom, and it scrapes the surface drawing in food. As the mouth closes, the cilia retract back into the mouth capturing anything it caught.
Here are some pictures:
Whole monti nudi shot
Closeup of mouth and eye:
Here is a series of it feeding:
Rearing back and opening its mouth....you can see the retracted cilia:
Head starting its downward movement:
Still moving downward towards the surface:
Mouth now in contact with the surface:
Cilia now extended to vacuum the surface for food:
