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Aldisa vozinhai: the red sea slug named for goalkeeper Vozinha

Jul 23, 2026 ♥1

From a Photo to a Scientific Name: How a New Sea Slug Gets Described

Jul 22, 2026 ♥3

Thecacera sp. 7 has a Japanese common name but no scientific one. From a single photograph to a published name, this...

Thecacera pikachu: the 'Pikachu nudibranch' finally gets its name (East Timor, 2026)

Jun 30, 2026

Aeolidiidae revised — Novaeolidiella janae and a cryptic Aeolidiella avatar

Jun 29, 2026

A new Anteaeolidiella (A. decorus) from China — and also found in Japan

Jun 28, 2026 ♥1

Hantazuia: three new sea slugs (including one named after me)

Jun 27, 2026

A new Pseudobornella from China — and rethinking what we call P. orientalis in Japan

Jun 26, 2026

Soft-sediment Fionidae get a major revision — and several Indo-Pacific "sp." finally get names

Jun 25, 2026

Gymnodoris nigricolor is a four-species complex: 65 years after Baba's 4 mm holotype

Jun 20, 2026 ♥2

Part of Thordisa moves to a new genus Avaldesia — and good luck telling them apart in photos

Jun 19, 2026

Kotohime-umiushi, globally treated as one species, is at least five

Jun 17, 2026

Polycera nimbsi — a Polycerinae paper adds three species and one new genus

Jun 16, 2026

Kaloplocamus ramosus is at least two species — K. albopunctatus described, K. japonicus resurrected

Jun 14, 2026

New Dendronotus paper from the North Atlantic

Jun 7, 2026

One trans-Arctic Diaphoreolis viridis — and a new deep-sea D. shinkaii (Grishina 2026)

Jun 5, 2026

Photos Tagged Phyllidia picta (or P. coelestis) Turn Out to Be a New Species — Two New Phyllidia from Sulawesi

May 28, 2026 ♥1