Regal Sea Goddess

Description:

Very colourful sea slug, about 10-11cm long and not more than 2cm wide. Appears golden-orange, but the basic colour of the mantle is light blue, and is covered in multitude of bright yellow-orange dots and stripes. The rhinophores are violet blue.

Habitat:

Here photographed in Bay of Cavtat (Dubrovnik riviera), on rocky bottoms in shallow waters near the shoreline. Rocks here are reaching the surface, providing many hiding places, slopping down to 10m gradually. The sea bottom here is rocky, creating many crevasses and tunnels, and rocks are abundantly covered in algae. In those deeper waters, there are some large colonies of sea grass settled on patches of sand.