Divers Discussion Forum
You can reply to the message below by clicking the reply to this message link. If you have a question or have seen something interesting please please send us a new message. Wade or some of our viewers will reply to your questions.
[ Home | Contents | Search | Post a new message | Reply to this message | Next Message | Previous Message ]
From: Irene Van de Ven
Date: 01-01-10
Time: 10:19
Hi Wade,
Crispin and I did an amazing dive around passage island in Whangarei harbour on the 27-12-09. the anemones and sponges were beautiful, I spotted (and Crispin photographed) some rather peculiar nudibranchs, they were on some sponges at 12.5m depth from looking at the sea slug forum and ian skipworths website I believe it is Atagema carinata, it has a hard ridge down its back had a rough surface as described on sea slug forum. As far as the literature I believe most of the records are from the far south?! One of the attached pictures also has an egg mass on it. there were four of these guys together in one spot, we didnt see any others. Crispin apologises for the quality of the pictures the current was absolutely ripping.
Hope you enjoy the pics, and can shed some light
Cheers
Irene van de Ven
Last changed: 01-Jan-2010