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Apr 24, 2026
Tambja amakusana: known and unknown
Jun 1, 2026
Bill Rudman's Sea Slug Forum — The Web Archive That Still Feeds Formal Taxonomy
May 24, 2026
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The Sea Slug Forum (1998-2010), run single-handedly by William B. Rudman at the Australian Museum, answered 14,523...
Terry Gosliner and the Slug Lab — Who Names Today's Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs
May 19, 2026
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Terry Gosliner of the California Academy of Sciences leads the Slug Lab, the team behind today's Indo-Pacific sea...
Kiippon-umiushi: how Japan named a 'three-lined' nudibranch 'one-yellow-line'
May 18, 2026
The Japanese vernacular name kiippon-umiushi literally means 'yellow-one-line' — yet the scientific name Mexichromis...
Are nudibranch colors really "structural"? — Multiple pigment, kleptoplast, and photonic pathways in the primary literature
May 15, 2026
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Are nudibranch colors really structural? A primary-literature read of Humphrey et al. (2026) and the three...
The Takaoka Biological Club — Fifty Years of Amateur Opisthobranch Research on the Central Japan Sea Coast
May 14, 2026
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How the Takaoka Biological Club (TBC), an amateur research group in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, spent half a...
Sea Slugs Named After Obama, Pikachu, and Real Scientists: 50+ Eponyms
May 7, 2026
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Many sea slug scientific names honour real people — from Barack Obama and Pikachu, to taxonomists like Kikutaro Baba...
Nudibranch vs Sea Slug: Every Nudibranch Is a Sea Slug — But Not the Reverse
May 1, 2026
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Every nudibranch is a sea slug — but not every sea slug is a nudibranch. Six species across six lineages, plus the...
What is a Sea Slug? — Nine Orders to Twelve Lineages, 25 Years On
May 1, 2026
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A sea slug is a marine gastropod whose shell has been reduced, internalized, or lost. Tracing how umiushi was...
How a Russian Sea Slug Book Found a Permanent Home in Tokyo: Martynov & Korshunova (2025) and the Quiet Mechanics of Taxonomic Stability
Apr 30, 2026
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Martynov & Korshunova (2025) is a properly issued book on North Pacific sea slug taxonomy, but its small print run...
Japanese Shell Names Decoded — Three Old Names Edo-Period Naturalists Gave to Sea Slugs
Apr 26, 2026
Part 2 of the cross-cultural sea slug naming series. Three very old Japanese shell names — Misugai, Benishibori, and...