#janolus

[helmador]

My superstitious sea/ice sailor guy I created for an 1850s themed WoF AU roleplay server 🌊🌊🌊

[herpsandbirds]

Purple-tipped Janolus (Janolus savinkini), family Proctonotidae, order Nudibranchia, Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand

photograph by Stuart Childs

[drawaseaslugeveryday]

day 6: janolus fuscus 📍gulf of alaska, central california, northern japan

partner named this one frankie. these guys are a nudibranch! they are hunted by navanax inermis.

[angelnumber27]

Janolus

Sergi Garcia

[cephalogodess]

This is the only Janolus fuscus nudibranch I’ve ever been blessed enough to see! What a beauty. I am always amazed by nudibranchs, but this specimen was really a stunner. 

[vikenshrestha]

Janolus cristatus by DanyRos

[vikenshrestha]

Janolus cristatus by DanyRos

[libutron]

Sea slug Janolus cristatus

What you see in this photo is a sea slug scientifically named Janolus cristatus (Nudibranchia - Proctonotidae/Zephyrinidae), a large species up to 7.5 cm long, distinctive by having numerous, transparent cerata, that clearly show the digestive gland duct running to the tip where it divides into a number of terminal branches. The tips of the cerata are colored with an iridescent bluish-white pigment.

The species lives in shallow sublittoral conditions, especially on sheltered rocky coasts, and can be found in the Northeastern Atlantic from Norway to Morocco, and western Mediterranean.

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Photo credit: ©Miqui Rosa | Locality: Tossa de Mar, Catalonia, Spain (2011)