By Dr. Tom Niesen The creature featured today is Berthella californica, the California Berthella or the California Side-gilled sea slug. A specimen was recently observed at FMR in a midtidal tide pool by Tom Ciotti, Board member of The Friends of Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Berthella spp. are easily mistaken for…
by Robin Agarwal Originally published in the October 2019 Edition of Between the Tides Looking like a fanciful Pokémon creature made out of pink, blue and yellow-striped candy corn, Babakina festiva (Roller, 1973) is one of California’s more infrequently-seen nudibranchs and an even more infrequent visitor to the northern half…
Volunteer naturalist Julie B. Walters spent part of her weekend helping our new class of volunteers learn about the inhabitants of the floating docks in Pillar Point Harbor, and was rewarded with an encounter with TWO of these beautiful nudibranchs.