Flabellina albomarginata
12 January 2005
Dive Number 884
Oculina Point
Poor Knights Islands
9 April 2005
Dive Number 907
Serpent Rock
Poor Knights Islands
5 November 2005
Dive Number 942
Cream Garden
Poor Knights Islands
Three slugs and eggs can be seen in this photo.
How big ?
Well, here's my thumb next to the group of three.
By meausuring my thumb I reckon these these slugs are close to 6mm (1/4”)
long from tip to tip.
23 September 2006
Dive Number 1008
Shaft Cave
Poor Knights Islands
7 October 2006
Dive Number 1013
Len's Reef
Aldermen Islands
17 December 2006
Dive Number 1033
The Pinnacles
Poor Knights Islands
17 April 2007
Dive Number 1090
Round Island
Preservation Inlet
Fiordland
Dive buddy Matthew finds what is perhaps the first record of this tiny
slug from Fiordland.
20 May 2007
Dive Number 1105
Middle Arch
Poor Knights Islands
On the wall in Middle Arch I found three slugs on a sad looking little hydroid tree. The largest of the three (bottom photo) is unusually large at about 8mm long and looks like he has seen better days.
1 September 2007
Dive Number 1129
The Sugarloaf
Poor Knights Islands
These guys like to feed on hydroids and I have often seen them crawling up the stems of Tubularia and launching an attack on the head, just as this one is doing.
At this time, Flabellina albomarginata seem to be particluarly common at the Poor Knights and I am seeing several of them on most dives.
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