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More Indonesia Nudibranch Hunting 2012
Back from ten days of great nudibranch hunting with Graham Abbott and crew
on the Cheng Ho, mainly around Sangeang, but also a day at Wainilu, Rinca
and three days around Bima and north east Sumbawa. It was followed by a
further amazing ten days at Villa Markisa on Bali.
Below are some of the more
unusual ones as basic Lightroom html
galleries in chronological order (viewable on the iPad):
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Sangeang - 150 pictures,
143 species
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Bali - 150
pictures,
132 species
The total for the trip was 356
species, 145 new for me. A lot of work is still to be done
to
add them all to the main database
## Taxonomic classification ##
Click
here to visit the second section of this website - all species divided
by order, family and genus
Continue here for the
previous area based groupings -
I hope this website will be a useful reference for the many nudibranch
fanatics around the world. I use the term 'nudibranch'
in the layman's reference to all the animals in the Opistobranchia
subclass of the phylum Mollusca, rather than restricting it to the order
Nudibranchia only. Sea slugs is another
all-encompassing common name.
I was introduced to nudibranchs when I started taking macro
pictures back in 1985. These pages catalogue some of the hundreds of nudibranchs
I have seen and photographed in more than 3,600 hours of diving in over twenty countries.
Some of these countries are not represented here due to most of the diving
there being research or other work, and so I was not taking pictures for
my own use.
Indonesia 1
is from three
intensive weeks in March 2004 at Lembeh Straits,
N Sulawesi,
along with a couple of days there in November 2007. The latter were part of a
trip to N Sulawesi, based on Bunaken
Island, and visiting Bangka Island
as well. See Indonesia 2,
which includes eight pictures from November 1994.
Indonesia 3
is from a productive twelve day liveaboard in April 2007 to
West Papua (formerly Irian
Jaya). This followed an amazing week at Scuba Seraya,
NE Bali, which combined with a few
days there in 2005 makes Indonesia
4.
Indonesia 5
is from three liveaboards around the
Komodo, Rinca and W Flores
areas in May 2005 (two
weeks), December 2009 (three weeks) and June 2011 (ten days, part
of a great Nudibranch Workshop with Christiane Waldrich and Dr Dave Behrens), along with a few days in March 2000.
Indonesia 6
is from six days continuing
on the Workshop in June/July 2011
around Sangeang and Bima Bay, NE
Sumbawa, along with
one great dive
in March 2000.
Malaysia 1 is from three busy weeks in October 2002 at Mantanani
Island, NW Sabah.
Thailand is from four weeks in March and April 2008 at the
Similan and Surin Islands, and
Richelieu Rock, Andaman Sea, combined with a shorter trip in 2002.
Philippines 1 is from two weeks in
May 2009 at
Anilao,
Batangas and Puerto Galera, Mindoro and
Philippines 2 is from over two weeks in
February/March 2012 at
Puerto Princesa, Palawan and
Dumagete/Dauin, Negros.
All the above sections are grouped into families.
The other sections extend this over other areas where I
have dived, including some older ones with little nudibranch hunting, to give
a total of 2,530
pictures of 493 species.
The identifications cannot be completely accurate (sometimes
without dissection of samples to study the radula or teeth), but are
done to the best of my abilities, with help from various websites and
books, as detailed on the Links page, along with several nudibranch
experts – thank you to them for their help. Some identifications
have been amended by the Nudi
Pixel experts.
Please contact me if you find any errors or have any comments,
or if you want any other information about these pages, or if you would
like to use any of the pictures or purchase prints of them.
Anthony Holley
info@holleyuwphoto.com
Places to visit in this website:
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Canada - Quadra
Island and Browning Passage,
Vancouver Island - 19 pictures of 13 species from 2003
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Caribbean, S & E -
Curacao (2000),
Bonaire (2004) and
Dominica (2006) - 16 pictures of 3 species
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Egypt 1 -
Sharm el Sheikh and Abu Nuhas areas
of the Northern Red Sea - 47 pictures of 15 species from 1988, 2001,
2006 and 2008
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Egypt 2 -
Nuweiba area
of the Gulf of Aqaba
- 38 pictures of 16 species
from 2011
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Indonesia 1 -
Lembeh
Straits, NE Sulawesi - 200 pictures of 92
species
from 2004 and 2007
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Indonesia
2 -
Bunaken and Bangka Islands,
N Sulawesi - 158
pictures of 59 species from 1994 and 2007
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Indonesia 3 -
Kaimana, Fakfak, Misool to Sorong, West Papua (formerly Irian
Jaya) - 141 pictures of
67 species
from 2007
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Indonesia 4 -
NE Bali
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158 pictures of 65 species from 2005 and 2007
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Indonesia
5 -
Komodo,
Rinca and West Flores - 581 pictures of
213 species from 2000, 2005,
2009 and 2011
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Indonesia 6
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Sangeang and Bima Bay, NE Sumbawa -
262 pictures of 142 species from 2000
and
2011
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Indonesia 7 -
Alor and East Flores -
40 pictures of 33 species from 2000 and 2005
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Indonesia 8 -
Celebes Sea (1990),
Ambon
(1994), Java Sea (1996),
Banda Sea (2000), and
Wakatobi, SE Sulawesi (2001)
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17 pictures of 13 species
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Malaysia 1 - Mantanani
Island, off NW Sabah - 72 pictures of 62 species from 2002
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Malaysia 2 - Mabul,
Kapali and Sipadan
Islands, off E Sabah - 39 pictures of 25 species from 1995, 1996,
1999 and 2001
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Malaysia 3 -
Royal Charlotte Reef in the
South China Sea - 6 pictures of 5
species from 1989 and 1990
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Mexico -
Sea of Cortez -
19 pictures of
14 species from 1990
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Papua New Guinea -
Milne Bay, D'Entrecasteaux and Eastern
Fields areas - 13 pictures of 12 species from 1997
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Philippines
1
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Anilao,
Batangas and Puerto Galera, Mindoro
- 189 pictures of 79
species from 2009
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Philippines
2
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Puerto Princesa,
Palawan and Dumagete/Dauin, Negros
- 157 pictures of
59
species from
2012
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Seychelles -
Mahe Island -
24 pictures of 20
species from 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1992
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Thailand -
Similan and Surin Islands, and
Richelieu Rock - 125 pictures of
37 species from 2002
and 2008
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United Kingdom 1 -
Falmouth, Plymouth, Swanage and Weymouth, S
England and West Wales -
40
pictures of 15
species from 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2010
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United Kingdom 2
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Farne Islands, NE England - 29 pictures of 10 species from 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
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United Kingdom 3 -
St Abbs, SE Scotland - 65
pictures of 18 species from 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
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United Kingdom
4 - Outer Hebrides,
NW Scotland
- 75
pictures of 32 species from
2010
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