Most of the photos posted to this page were taken with a Canon 20D in an Ikelike housing with TTL connection to an Ikelite DS-125 and an Inon 2000 substrobe. I also use a Sony Cybershot P150 in a Sony housing attached to a Sea & Sea YS-25 via fiberoptic cable.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Nembrotha lineolata on the Forum
Nembrotha lineolata with its head inside an ascidian. According to Bill Rudman at the Sea Slug Forum, solitary ascidians like this, often known as 'sea squirts', have an outer sac which protects the delicate sieve-like basket which filters their food out of the sea water and encloses the rest of the body. It looks like species of Nembrotha feed on solitary ascidians by inserting their extensible oral tube through one of the siphons to get to the fleshier parts of the body.