70. Scale

The animal is a nudibranch (a kind of sea slug): Diaphorodoris mitsuii. It’s tiny, just millimeters long. The photo was taken at the Sea Slug Census at Nelson Bay in September, a volunteer day of cataloguing nudis and related slugs.

I did not contribute particularly well at my first census, partly because I was distracted by a couple of octopuses. But I did find the relatively exotic species above. Below is another tiny nudibranch from that day, Goniodoridella savignyi.

In both cases, I too...