New Zealand Seashore

DSC_0839 Fire janolus (Janolus ignis) subtidal, known from the Poor Knights in the north, to as far south as the Bounties, in the subantarctic. Southern animals are orange and feed on Orthoscuticella ventricosa, northern ones are deep red, feeding on Orthoscuticella aff. margaritacea. This individual, found washed ashore at Kakanui after a storm, is the typical southern form. Cats Eye Point, Kakanui *

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DSC_0839 Fire janolus (Janolus ignis) subtidal, known from the Poor Knights in the north, to as far south as the Bounties, in the subantarctic. Southern animals are orange and feed on Orthoscuticella ventricosa, northern ones are deep red, feeding on Orthoscuticella aff. margaritacea. This individual, found washed ashore at Kakanui after a storm, is the typical southern form. Cats Eye Point, Kakanui *

DSC 0839 Fire janolus Janolus ignis nudibranch seaslug sea slug Cats Eye Point Kakanui