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Brême Not yet identified Date: 09/28/2007 Not yet identified
Nudibranch Flabellina Flabellina affinis Date: 09/25/2008 Flabellina affinis
Big Scorpion fish Scorpaena scrofa Date: 09/12/2007 Scorpaena scrofa
The big mediteranean scorpion fish.
Congre Conger conger Date: 09/12/2007 Conger conger
Little red scorpion fish in a gorgona Scorpaena notata Date: 09/12/2007 Scorpaena notata
Nudibranch Platydoris Platydoris argo ? Date: 09/22/2007 Not yet identified. Rare.

Calvi, Corsica 1998.

I have been quite puzzled by this photo as well. Its size, colour and very raised gill and rhinophore pockets are just as in Platydoris argo. Unless I am very wrong this animal has had most of the mantle skirt removed. I don't know if this species is known to autotomise its mantle when alarmed, but that could be one means of mantle loss - another could have been the persistent nibbling of a crab or fish. Any other ideas would be welcome.

Bill Rudman
Australian Museum, Sydney
Cylinder anemon Cerianthus sp. Date: 09/12/2007 Cerianthus sp.
Nudibranch Flabellina Hervia Cratena peregrina Date: 09/12/2007 Flabellina hervia

Hervia costai Haefelfinger, 1961 is a synonym. Also Cratena peregrina (Gmelin, 1791)
Ref : DIV_1670r
Serran Ecriture Serranus scriba Date: 09/12/2007 Serranus scriba
Nudibranch Flabellina ischitana Flabellina ischitana Date: 09/30/2007 Flabellina ischitana
Hirano & Thompson, 1990.

I am pretty sure this is Flabellina ischitana. Another species which is of similar colour and has the cerata arranged on a common stalk like this is F. affinis. However in that species there is an opaque purple band around the cerata, just below the white tip, which can't be seen in this photo.

Bill Rudman
Australian Museum, Sydney
Nudibranche Hypselodoris picta Hypselodoris picta Date: 09/30/2007 Hypselodoris picta

Blue form.
Serran Ecriture Serranus scriba Date: 09/12/2007 Serranus scriba
Serran Ecriture Serranus scriba Date: 09/12/2007 Serranus scriba
Yellow big scorpion fish Scorpaena scrofa Date: 09/12/2007 Scorpaena scrofa
Chapon ou grande rascasse Scorpaena scrofa Date: 09/12/2007 Scorpaena scrofa
White flabellina Flabellina babai Date: 09/30/2007 Flabellina babai

Mediterranean specy. Eolidien Familly . Size 40mm.
Brown scorpion fish Scorpaena porcus Date: 09/12/2007 Scorpaena porcus
Gobie Gobius sp. Date: 09/12/2007 Gobius sp.
Red gorgona Paramuricea clavata Date: 09/18/2008 Paramuricea clavata
Red gorgona Paramuricea clavata Date: 09/30/2007 Paramuricea clavata
Hypselodoris picta gills Hypselodoris picta Date: 09/28/2007 Hypselodoris picta
White flabellina Flabellina babai Date: 09/30/2007 Flabellina babai

Mediterranean specy. Eolidien Familly . Size 40mm.
Nudibranch Flabellina affinis Flabellina affinis Date: 09/30/2007 Flabellina affinis

This species differ in having an opaque purple band just below the ceratal tip. You can see it clearly in your photo, which would make it Flabellina affinis. The ceratal groups in your photo don't seem to be on such obvious basal stalks but I suspect they are very contracted in this photo.
In this photo you can also see the fine rings on the rhinophores. They are also present in F. ischitana but are not so clearly seen in your earlier photo. The two white sausage-shaped structures behind the first ceratal clusters are in fact the egg sacs of a parasitic crustacea living in the body cavity of the aeolid.
Bill Rudman
Australian Museum, Sydney.
Luminescent jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca Date: 09/28/2007 Pelagia noctiluca
Poulpe Octopus vulgaris Date: 09/04/2016 Octopus vulgaris
Triton Charonia tritonis Date: 09/28/2007 Charonia tritonis
Dotted sea-slug Discodoris atromaculata Date: 09/12/2007 Discodoris atromaculata
Dotted sea-slug Discodoris atromaculata Date: 09/25/2008 Discodoris atromaculata

Mediterranean sea.
Nudibranche Doris Dalmatien Discodoris atromaculata Date: 08/24/2016 Discodoris atromaculata est un grand doridien qui peut atteindre 12 cm de long. Son corp est ovale, son manteau coriace au toucher est blanc parsemé de nombreuses grandes et petites taches brunes qui rappellent la robe des dalmatiens. Ses rhinophores et ses huit branchies sont rétractiles. Souvent en groupe de deux ou trois individus, c'est un nudibranche que l'on rencontrera depuis la surface, sur les roches, ou, plus souvent, sur l'éponge Petrosia ficiformis dont il se nourrit. Le doris dalmatien vit en Méditerranée et en Atlantique proche de la Méditerranée, au nord, jusqu'à la côte Basque.
Nudibranch Hypselodoris picta Hypselodoris picta Date: 09/28/2007 Hypselodoris picta

This is the largest chromodorid from the Mediterranean Sea and is widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic. It varies greatly in colour and pattern and consequently has been known under many names including Hypselodoris elegans (Cantraine, 1835), Hypselodoris webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839), Hypselodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841), Hypselodoris edenticulata (White, 1952), Hypselodoris tema Edmunds, 1981.
Triton Charonia tritonis Date: 09/30/2007 Charonia tritonis
Brown grouper Epinephelus marginatus Date: 09/12/2007 Epinephelus marginatus
Nudibranche Thuridilla hopei Thuridilla hopei Date: 09/30/2007 Thuridilla hopei
Brown mediterranean grouper Epinephelus marginatus Date: 09/12/2007 Epinephelus marginatus
Spirograph Worm Date: 09/03/2016
Flabellina Hervia costai Cratena peregrina Date: 09/30/2007 Flabellina hervia, Hervia costai, Cratena peregrina.

Mediterranean specy, it feed the Hydraire polyps Eudendrium sp.
Eolidien familly. Size 30mm.
Nudibranch ruban eggs Date: 09/30/2007 Typic ruban egg.
Murène Murène Date: 08/24/2016
Brown grouper Epinephelus marginatus Date: 09/12/2007 Epinephelus marginatus
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