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Nelson Bay Sea Slug Census is a joint partnership between Southern Cross University (SCU) http://scu.edu.au/ and the Combined Hunter Underwater Group (CHUG) http://combinedhunterunderwatergroup.weebly.com For more information email: [email protected]

Nelson Bay Sea Slug Census XVII: 17-18th March 2018

Overall: 17 Censuses with 507 Participants finding 222 Species!

Sea Slug Census XVII: 27 Participants who found 66 Species!

This included 1 species (Hypselodoris tryoni) which hasn’t been seen on

Nelson Bay Sea Slug Censuses before, found by Margo & Terry.

Hypselodoris tryoni (Found by Margo Smith & Terry Roche)

William Owyong & Cath Shorthouse were the Citizen Scientist team finding the

highest number of species (26).

Thanks to all the people who took part; Allan Kessler, Alyssa Luongo, Brian Mayes, Cath Shorthouse, Cedric van den Berg, Dave Harasti,

David Atkinson, Ian Marriner, Jenni Chutima, Jeremy Robson, Jill Mayes, John Hatch, Justin McNab,

Kate Tinson, Margo Smith, Martin Burman, Miranda Brazel, Natalie Moltschaniwskyj, Nicola Davis,

Owen Coffee, Peter Davey, Ron Bowditch, Stephanie Bagala, Terry Roche, Tom Davis, Trudie Campey,

William Owyong

The album on the following pages shows photos of all the species found on the census. All photos were taken by participants in the census. Photos are in order from “most sighted” to

“least sighted” with the number of sightings shown in brackets.

http://scu.edu.au/

http://combinedhunterunderwatergroup.weebly.com/

mailto:[email protected]

Nelson Bay Sea Slug Census XVII Album: 17-18th March 2018


Nelson Bay Sea Slug Census XVII Species Album

Aphelodoris varia (12) Ceratosoma brevicaudatum (10) Goniobranchus aureopurpureus (10)

Pteraeolidia ianthina (10) Flabellina rubrolineata (9) Ceratosoma tenue (8)

Doriprismatica atromarginata (7) Goniobranchus collingwoodi (7) Goniobranchus daphne (7)

Ceratosoma amoenum (6)

Hypselodoris obscura (6) Goniobranchus splendidus (5)

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Polycera capensis (5)

Tenellia sibogae (5) Berthellina citrina (4)

Goniobranchus albonares (4)

Pleurobranchus peronii (4)

Aplysia juliana (3)

Dermatobranchus

dendronephthyphagus (3) Hypselodoris bennetti (3) Aplysia parvula (2)

Atagema intecta (2)

Cratena lineata (2)

Dendrodoris nigra (2)

Dermatobranchus sp. 1 (2) Elysia maoria (2)

Goniobranchus verrieri (2)

http://scu.edu.au/





Goniodoridella savignyi (2)

Hoplodoris nodulosa (2)

Jorunna pantherina (2)

Jorunna ramicola (2)

Mexichromis festiva (2) Nembrotha purpureolineata (2)

Plocamopherus imperialis (2)

Aplysia extraordinaria (1)

Aplysia sydneyensis (1)

Austraeolis ornata (1)

Bulbaeolidia alba (1) Caloria indica (1)

Chelidonura hirundinina (1)

Chromodoris striatella (1)

Crosslandia viridis (1)

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Dendrodoris krusensternii (1)

Dermatobranchus primus (1)

Dolabella auricularia (1)

Doriopsilla carneola (1) Doriopsilla peculiaris (1) Elysia australis (1)

Elysia sp. 2 (1) Eubranchus inabai (1)

Flabellina poenicia (1)

Glossodoris angasi (1)

Goniodoridella sp. 2 (1)

Hypselodoris jacksoni (1)

Hypselodoris tryoni (1) Kaloplocamus acutus (1) Nembrotha rosannulata (1)

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Oxynoe viridis (1)

Philinopsis lineolata (1)

Phyllodesmium sp. 1 (apricot) (1)

Polybranchia orientalis (1)

Rostanga arbutus (1)

Spurilla braziliana (1)

Tayuva lilacina (1)

Thordisa cf. verrucosa (1)

Verconia haliclona (1)

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