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Jorunna funebris
Jorunna funebris, common name the dotted nudibranch, is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.
Red Sea, Indian Ocean to South-East Asia
To the left of the nudibranch you can see the white-coloured egg ribbon it has layed.
Spotted on May 12, 2011
Submitted on Feb 6, 2012
9 Comments
beautiful
My pleasure, Jack. Looking forward to more nudibranch spottings from you! :)
Wonderful spotting!
Cool, thanks blogie.
Hey Jack, maybe you could also submit this spotting to the Eggs of the World mission? Here's the link: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8022...
But if you do, I suggest you add to your description that the nudibranch was laying eggs so that the folks over at the mission won't get confused with the submission. :)
Oh yeah, you're right! It was laying an egg spiral. I saw that happen once, it was a Flabellina bicolor laying eggs. Quite amazing!
Looks like the jorunna is laying its eggs, yes.
Never really noticed that before.
I think it might be eggs?
Wow, is that another nudibranch or maybe a flatworm underneath the jorunna?
Btw, "polka-dot nudibranch" sounds so much better than "funeral jorunna", doesn't it? :)