Nudi Nomenclature

I took more charcoal at lunch and dinner but I am still not 100%.  I made all four dives though!!!

At night, Bernard presented on naming nudibranchs.  I found out three new things:

1. You don’t have to be a scientist to discover a new nudibranch, you just have to follow a set of rules
2. It is in bad form to name a nudibranch after yourself.  You are supposed to name it after your spouse or significant other… or someone who helped you with your research.
3. Bernard discovered a nudibranch and named it after his dive buddy whose last name was Brown.  In Latin, a male name ends with an ‘I'.  So, the latin name is Flabellina browni. 

When you say it, it sounds just like “Brown-Eye”.  WTF?  I told Bernard the next day what that means in slang and he had no idea.   Here is what Urban Dictionary has to say about it.

On the night dive, I had a terrible time with my camera.  Toward the end of the dive everything started shooting gray.  I chalked it up to just the particulates in the area but it may be that my housing was fogging up.  The camera was also doing a funny thing again where it wouldn't shoot at all but if I turned it off and back on it seemed to work.  Grrr…

77 - Flabellina sp (orange body with purple oral tentacles and white rhinophores that appear hairy - cerata are lavender with maroon rings)

78 - Doriprismatica atromarginata

Used to be called Glossodoris atromarginata

79 - Flabellina sp. (gorgeous with more purple/lavendar and some orange in the cerata)

80 - Thuridilla sp. 1

81 - Flabellina sp. 9 (Small orange)

82 - Goniobranchus geometricus

Formerly Chromodoris geometrica

83 - Doto rosacea

84 - Doto ussi

Looked like a clump of grapes

85 - Sakuraeolis kirembosa

86 - Flabellina sp. (white with purple rhinophores and orange/white cerata)

87 - Eubranchus mandapamensis

88 - Janolus sp. 7

89 - Doto sp. 6

90 - Sakuraeolis nungunoides

91 - Bornella cf. adamsii

92 - Doto cf. youngei

93 - Lomanotus sp.

94 - Jorunna parva

95 - Trapania scurra

This guy is soooo tiny.  I had a really hard time getting a good picture of him.  

96 - Trapania sp. 4

97 - Melibe sp.

98 - Glossodoris cincta

99 - Eubranchus sp. 16

100 - Discodoris boholensis

101 - Plocamopherus tilesii

102 - Eubranchus ocellatus

103 - Euselenops luniceps

104 - Unknown (white eubranchus photo bombed by a ghost shrimp)

105 - Carminodoris flammea

106 - Eubranchus sp. (white with green rhinophores)

107 - Cuthona sp. 12

108 - Peltodoris rubra

109 - Unknown (spiky one with eggs)

110 - Eubranchus sp. 14

111 - Dermatobranchus rubidus