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  • Nudibranchs will often climb up bits of coral in order to use their extraordinary chemo receptor rhinophores to "taste" the water and sense food sources and threats.
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  • The white sacks at the ends of this nudibranch's cerata are cnidosacks. The darker areas are digestive canals. These nudibranchs feed on hydriods, which have stinging cells. These are processed by the nudibranch, passed through the disgestive canals and end up in the cnidosacks. This presents an unpleasant suprise for any would-be predator.
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  • A redline flabellina (Flabellina rubrolineata) strikes a pose. Taken in the Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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  • A Yamasu's cuthona (Cuthona yamasui) makes its way across the sea bed
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  • This nudibranch has evolved to be able to generate its own food by having photosynthetic zooxanthellae algae within it. The solar-powered phyllodesmium (Phyllodesmium longicirrum) ingest green algae without completely digesting it and stores the algae's chloroplasts in the obvious spots on its body.
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  • The colors of this Flabellina rubrolineata warn other animals that it may give them a anasty surpise if they try to eat it. It can store the poison from the stinging cells of the animals it eats, and use it as aweapon in its defence.
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  • A Coryphella lineata nudibranch on a hydroid in the cold green waters of Norway. Nudibranchs exist in just about evrry climatic region, from tropical reefs to polar oceans.
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  • This nudibranch has evolved to be able to generate its own food by having photosynthetic zooxanthellae algae within it. The solar-powered phyllodesmium (Phyllodesmium longicirrum) ingest green algae without completely digesting it and stores the algae's chloroplasts in the obvious spots on its body.
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  • Not all nudibranchs are brightly colored! This Rudman's phyllodesmium (Phyllodesmium rudmani ) has evolved to look like the polyps of the Xenia soft corals that it normally inhabits.
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