I spoke at the Malacological Society of Japan 2025 meeting about Japanese vernacular names for sea slugs

Going forward, I want to push for standardising Japanese vernacular names for sea slugs.

• Japanese vernacular names for sea slugs were rapidly proliferated from around 2000 onward, largely through commercial field guides
• For divers, this had real upsides (every animal you photograph has a name to write down), but it also created a lot of confusion behind the scenes
• I went through several concrete examples of that confusion
• As a solution, I proposed that Japanese vernacular names should go through a peer-review process, similar in spirit to how scientific names are reviewed
• To make that review process workable, we need a standard Japanese-name checklist and a naming-guideline document, and I am going to start putting those together

That was the gist of my talk.

https://www.docswell.com/s/seaslug-world/KWWQJX-2025-05-18-203741

(The talk was given at the 2025 annual meeting of the Malacological Society of Japan. The slides linked above are in Japanese.)