Yellow slug-like creature

[Toolfan333]

Hello, i was hoping someone could help me identify this hitchhiker. It looks like a yellow slug with a distinct round head with antennas. Anything you can tell me about this would be great.
Thx

 

[Dkuhlmann]

You need some bigger and better quality pictures. Can't make out anything but a yellow blob in a tiny picture.

I'm going to guess it's some type of nudibranch. Most come in as hitchhikers and are usually bad because they eat corals. But without a decent picture I'm only guessing.

 

[CafeReef]

You need some bigger and better quality pictures. Can't make out anything but a yellow blob in a tiny picture.

I'm going to guess it's some type of nudibranch. Most come in as hitchhikers and are usually bad because they eat corals. But without a decent picture I'm only guessing.

Nudi was my first thought too, but the pictures really make it hard to tell. could be snot

 

[Toolfan333]

Thx for replies, just found out its a stomatella

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Stomatella have shells on their backs. I've also never seen a true yellow one, mostly a tanish color and or black. The shell looks like a fingernail just mostly covers the head and part of the body.

 

[conjuay]

there are yellow ones - pretty cute for a slug...

 

[Toolfan333]

It normally hangs out in the back, last night it was on a rock in the front out stretched like a tentacle and i could see a small flat purple shell. The body is yellow with white bloches and the head is round like a caterpillar head with antennas. Its fast for a slug/snail amd is about an inch long. My phone has poor resolution, so those pics are the best i can do.

 

[Toolfan333]

The pic conjuay posted is close, but mine has a purple shell and is brighter yellow

 

[Animagus]

Caulerpa slug perhaps? (Elysia)

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/elysia.shtml

 

[Natereef]

The pic conjuay posted is close, but mine has a purple shell and is brighter yellow

I asked the same question before on my thread. I had one of these. Its a stomatella snail.

 

[rocksaus]

I'll take it I'd you don't want it stomatellas are great and they are rarely for sale

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[Toolfan333]

Lol...no i want it. I hope i get more. Its very amusing the way it stands up like a prairie dog. I think the purple shell is coraline.