26 November 2006
Dive number 1023
15 metres depth
Rocklilly Inlet
Poor Knights Islands
Northland
New Zealand

My camera had been rested for several months while I learned to use my new Inspiration rebreather. On the camera's first outing with the breather I find this small Tritonina flemingi nudibranch.

It's the second time that I've ever found one of these seldom seen slugs.

At about 12mm long the slug is pretty small and I can't really see what it's up to but I click off a series of shots.

On reviewing the photos it seems that Tritonia flemingi has lined up an octocoral polyp for lunch and in the space of a few seconds has engulfed the unsuspecting polyp.