#my personal name

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Gymnodoris impudica/ Gymnodoris rubropapulosa

My personal name: Slug-eater, orange pepperoni slug

Location: Indo-West Pacific

Interesting fact: Other sea slugs beware! G. rubropapulosa is a relentless cannibal, feasting happily on other sea slugs. It doesn’t matter the size of G. rubropapulosa, as it’s been seen trying to make a meal out of other slugs much bigger than itself.

Special skill: Secretes toxins from its skin

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Cuthona yamasui

My personal name: Pill popper slug (the cerata look like pills to me idk)

Location: Tropical Indo-West Pacific

Variations: Heads, rhinophores, and oral tentacles range in color from translucent orange to a translucent blue-black color. The bodies sometimes are translucent with opaque white splotches, while other times the whole body is just plain opaque white

Diet: Carnivorous, feeding mainly on hydroids, such as the hydroid aglaophenia cupressina

Size: ~1-5 cm long

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Phidiana hiltoni

My personal name: Hairy slug

Location: Central coast of California to Baja California, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico

Size: Up to 5 cm long

Diet: Feeds on hydroids

Interesting fact: This slug baby is anything but innocent; born with a fire in their soul, P. hiltoni is known for attacking other aeolids, including members of its own kind. Other hairy babies beware!!

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Chromodoris annulata

My personal name: Sunny side up slug

Location: Indian Ocean and one record from eastern Pacific

Size: up to 10 cm long (bigger boys! Big egg boys!!)

Diet: Chelonaplysilla violacea, a type of sponge

Interesting fact: Some C. annulata don’t give a fuck and don’t have the yellow spots, making them just white with the two purple circles, one around the rhinophores and one around the gills

[lovelyslimebois]

Scientific name: Chromodoris Albopunctata Alternate name: Goniobranchus albopunctatus

My personal name for it: rainbow baby, chromey

Location: Indo-West Pacific (Too far away from me)

Variations: red-yellow-blue + white spots + deep red rhinophores (the bunny ears!), yellow-yellow-purple + white spots + deep red rhinophores

Adult size: 2-4 cm long

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Flabellina Marcusorum

My personal name: Rave slug

Found: West Coast of Central America and Caribbean coast of South America to Brazil

Variations: Translucent-ish pink/orange body with similarly colored cerata and rhinophores, each with a white tip, though sometimes the tip is yellow instead

Size: up to 3 cm long

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum

My personal name: electric cutie

Commonality: very rare

Confirmed locations: Horseshoe Cliffs in Okinawa, Lizard Island, in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and off the coast of Japan

Size: 1.7-2.8 cm long

Color: translucent-ish white body with either white or blue rhinophores and cerata coming in pink, red, blue, yellow, and cream

[lovelyslimebois]

Name: Sagaminopteron psychedelicum Aka: Psychedelic Batwing Slug

Personal name: Snoot boy, kaleidescope slug

Location: originated in Guam but can now be found in many parts of the tropical West Pacific

Size: Around 1.2 cm long