nudibranch

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nudibranch

a member of the order Nudibranchia, gasteropod molluscs which lack a shell.

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Winners for the Nudibranch category were Turkey's Cem Gazivekili (1st place), SongdaCai (2nd place) from China, and HakanBasar (3rd place), also from Turkey.

Photos reveal daring beauty of Philippine undersea life

Oxidative breakdown products of catecholamines and hydrogen peroxide induce partial metamorphosis in the nudibranch Phestilla sibogae Bergh (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia).

Transcriptomic Basis of Metamorphic Competence in the Salt-Marsh-Dwelling Polychaete Capitella teleta

Nudibranchs include some of the most flamboyantly colourful members of the class Mollusca, and this book is a colourful and visually appealing addition to the series.

Nudibranchs and related molluscs

Laboratory culture of the aeolid nudibranch Berghia verrucicornis (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia): some aspects its development and life history.

Effect of temperature and photoperiod on the early development of nudibranch Diaulula punctuolata (d'Orbigny, 1837) under laboratory conditions

2011), these conditions (which include moderate to strong El Nino events) are correlated with increased intertidal abundance of nudibranch gastropods in California, especially southern species, and can sometimes also force long-term shifts in their northern range limits (Goddard et al.

Nudibranch range shifts associated with the 2014 warm anomaly in the Northeast Pacific

BRIGHT IDEA Adam Davidson's image of a nudibranch mollusk

BEE ONE WITH NATURE; Snaps capture beauty of wildlife

Carotenoids of clam, coral and nudibranch zooxanthellae in aposymbiotic culture.

Bioactive acetylenic metabolites

Species that exhibit this include carrion flies, picture wing flies, a strange marine invertebrate known as Spadella cephaloptera, a type of leech, a marine nudibranch and the southern bottletail squid Sepiadarium austrinum.

Sperm can act as natural superfood

We also saw small creatures such as nudibranch, leaf fish and hermit crabs.

Diving the Coral Sea: a trip underwater was all it took for Lucy Graham to see what is worth protecting

A new shell-less snail, known as a nudibranch, Chromodoris fentoni, was just described by FWC biologists Nancy Sheridan and Joan Herrera, from a specimen collected by Daniel Fenton of Brandon, Florida.

A species discovered: second of two-parts on the unknown life in the seas

Consider the dazzling yellow stripes splashing the flanks of China rockfish or the neon feathered tips of the clown nudibranch.

Beneath Cold Seas

We found one new species of eel, possibly a new species of pipe fish, new species of barnacles, new species of nudibranch mollusks," said Terry Gosliner, dean of the California Academy.