Less mobile residents include several species of nudibranchs and sea hares, which are numerous in the early spring. |
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Follow the vertical wall on your left and it brings you round to a sheltered bay where nudibranchs and spiny lobsters are to be found. |
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There were dense walls of soft corals, sponges, anemones and hydroids, nudibranchs, creepy-crawlies and lots of fish. |
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Equally well represented in these waters are invertebrates such as crinoids, nudibranchs and featherduster worms. |
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While Antarctic sponges are indeed subject to little, if any, fish predation, they are heavily preyed on by sea stars and nudibranchs. |
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The divers visit a small skerrig surrounded by a kelp forest with nudibranchs, comb jellyfish and sea butterflies. |
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If you look carefully, there is a good chance of spotting nudibranchs and sea hares. |
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Large and small nudibranchs are everywhere, and batfish, barracuda, sweetlips and large groupers would follow us around. |
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There is plenty of room to swim down inside her curved exhaust stacks, habitats now for clown nudibranchs and large, beady-eyed prawns. |
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Throughout the ferry, nudibranchs, groupers, puffers, and wrasses had taken up residence along with juvenile barracuda, fusiliers and rabbitfish. |
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Grand sea fans enliven a reef inhabited by leaf fish, lionfish, and a polychromatic array of nudibranchs. |
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Grouper, anemonefish and small morays jostled for position in this kaleidoscopic garden of coral, with some brightly coloured nudibranchs and small shrimp adding to the mix. |
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Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
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Along the tops of the walls and gullies are many small hydroid clumps which, in turn, attract a range of delicately coloured nudibranchs that feed on them. |
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The pteropod, Cfione limacina differs from the nudibranchs and notaspids discussed so far in that it swims continuously using paired parapodial appendages that resemble wings. |
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British Columbia's nutrient-rich waters support a multitude of life including kelp forests, nudibranchs, anemones, wolf fish, king crabs and giant octopus. |
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It has profuse fish and invertebrate life, including groupers, emperor snappers, longhorn boxfish, sweetlips and large Discodoris boholensis nudibranchs. |
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Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding. |
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The sea slugs are nudibranchs, which means besides possessing both male and female reproductive organs, they could use both at the same time. |
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All of the nudibranchs seem to be derived from notaspidean-like stock with androdiaulic reproductive systems. |
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Albany was also a world-renowned natural scientist who conducted much of his research on invertebrates including nudibranchs and brachiopods. |
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They imitate underwater life forms such as corals, sponges and nudibranchs. |
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An investigation of some aspects of bryozoan predation by dorid nudibranchs. |
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They share the ocean with well over a hundred species of jellyfish and a diversity of seaweeds, deep-water corals, and nudibranchs. |
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A giant stride from the dive centre, the house reef is teeming with macro life, including ghost pipefish, seahorses and psychedelic nudibranchs. |
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We correct the previous erroneous identification of nephrocysts as eyespots in the hatching planktotrophic larvae of the nudibranchs Tritonia festiva and Janolus fuscus. |
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Nudibranchs are found everywhere, and just in front of the jetty, jawfish peer out of their holes, with mouthfuls of eggs. |
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Nudibranchs dotted the undersides of the coral and a spiny crown of thorns sea star moved slowly underneath a plate coral. |
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