Friday 7 December 2012

Slugs are slugs?

Or are they? Sea slugs are different..

Nudibranch commonly called sea slugs better than the terrestrial ones?

Nudibranch or sea slug

Flabalina affinis in Lanzarote

Flabalina affinis

Chromodoris quadricolor (Pyjama slug) Sharm el Shiek




Scuba diving is my other passion and it is surprising how the underwater world mirrors terra-firma or should I say terra-firma mirrors the deep sea, as this is where it all came from!
These slugs are wonderful colours and have amazing stinging cells on their skin so any predator gets a bit of a shock. They are not large and browse the rocks for food.
Slugs in the garden however are not something we go out of our way to photo graph!

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