| The nudibranch Melibe leonina swims by rhythmically flexing its body from side to side at a frequency of I cycle every 2-5 sec. |
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| Nature, of course, thinks of everything and it seems that a nudibranch getting its own sperm or eggs is impossible. |
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| We found ten different species of nudibranch, as well as sea spiders, edible crabs, swimming crabs and sea hares. |
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| Among the rocks, you'll find groups of plumose anemones, Devonshire cup corals, tubeworms and maybe a sea lemon nudibranch. |
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| Coleoidea, Crustaceans, nudibranch mollusks and polychaete worms make up a large part of the larger zooplankton. |
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| The sandy patches yield burrowing starfish, rare delicate tube anemones, heart urchins, peacock flounders, and many species of nudibranch and sea hare. |
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| Once the cnidae have matured within the nudibranch, they can be used in its own defense. |
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| I and my high school buddy Gary Williams, who coincidentally now occupies the curator's office next to mine at the academy, found a nudibranch that we could not identify during one of our field trips. |
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| We also saw small creatures such as nudibranch, leaf fish and hermit crabs. |
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| Consider the dazzling yellow stripes splashing the flanks of China rockfish or the neon feathered tips of the clown nudibranch. |
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| The nudibranch group of molluscs achieve their brilliantly coloured surfaces from the pigments they ingest with their food. |
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| Indeed, the rhinophores are considered a primary chemosensory organ in nudibranch mollusks. |
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| The delicately coloured body has bizarre outgrowths, called cerata, which serve a defensive function, discharging nematocysts that the nudibranch has ingested from cnidarian prey. |
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| Carotenoids of clam, coral and nudibranch zooxanthellae in aposymbiotic culture. |
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