Let's jump into the water and meet everybody from the liquid side of the Mediterranean! We would like to introduce you the hidden inhabitants of the amazing Mediterranean sea.
29 Sept 2009
Funky slug making lurve circles...
The Eastern side of the Mediterranean, never seems to stop suprising us with its beauty!
Phyllidia flava is the only representative of the Phylidias, in the Med,
and here we have two specimens (yellow blob) on the two orange shponges, after they have layed their, not so perfect as usual, egg mases.
Phyllidias do not have radular teeth so these slugs eat the sponge by exuding enzymes and sucking the animal off the sceleton.
This photo was taken at 35 meters in Pilio.
tags
* symbiosis photo,
02 (phylum) Cnidaria,
02 Ανεμώνες - Anemones,
02b (Class) Anthozoa,
02bc (order) Zoantharia,
02bc Parazoanthus axinellae,
03 (Phylum) Mollusca,
03 Γυμνοβράνχια - Nudibranchs,
03c (Class) Gastropoda,
03cb (Subclass) Opisthobranchia,
03cb Phyllidia flava,
07 (Phylum) Porifera,
07 Axinella sp.,
07 Σφουγκάρια - Sponges
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