jak
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What is this?
Seen in 8" of water as tide is going out in the Pacific.
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Ken Bondy should know.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jak
Seen in 8" of water as tide is going out in the Pacific.
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a nudibranch
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i think we call them a sea cucumber? squeeze it. if it squirts a purple fluid like a squid, there you are.
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My guess is a Navanax inermis - Striped Sea Hare
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I think Paulina has it as Striped Sea Hare. On my first and last tide pool trip when we moved to Pacific coast BCS six years ago, I wheelied over
with the variety of Nudibranch (Sea Cuce/Slug) that I found all in one set of pools. Amazing colors and shapes. Geez, I need to do that again....
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Oh, I'm going to leave this one for Ken Bondy.
He knows what it is.
Pretty, aren't they?
And I've found them all the way up to San Diego. I think they range further north than that because it's in 'Between Pacific Tides'.
Looks like Paulina got it, though.
[Edited on 3-4-2011 by Skipjack Joe]
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[Edited on 3-5-2011 by Barry A.]
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Ken Bondy
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Paulina's got it - Navanax inermis. They are similar to a nudibranch although they have an internal shell. Very beautiful - I probably have
some better images but this is the first one I came across:
[Edited on 3-5-2011 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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jak
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Thanks to all, it is the Navanax Inermis, Striped Sea Hare.
So that means I made a Navanax Inermis taco for dinner the other night? 
Just kidding.
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jak
Probably best to keep them out of your tacos, they are toxic
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Oh, I'm going to leave this one for Ken Bondy.
He knows what it is.
Pretty, aren't they?
And I've found them all the way up to San Diego. I think they range further north than that because it's in 'Between Pacific Tides'.
Looks like Paulina got it, though.
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Igor I've seen them as far north as Morro Bay, but I believe they have also been seen in Monterey Bay. They really are strikingly beautiful animals.
They feed on other nudibranchs, I have seen one ingesting a Hermissenda crassicornis.
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Yes, I was going to add that they are truly one of the very few members of the intertidal community that everything fears (like the sunstar). But
decided to leave science out of it this time.
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looks like the sea cucumbers that are served raw in S. Korea restraunts
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Don't want to belabor this, but Navanax is not a sea cucumber, it is an Opistobranch, a marine snail.
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That's it........
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/Molluscs/Navanax.htm
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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They are also voracious predators - swallowing prey whole even other Navanaxes (Navani??). They are very fold of the delicate bubble shell snail,
whose shell passes through the digestive tract unbroken! I know, tmi
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