Blue Glaucus

DescriptionAPI English: This Glaucus atlanticus was washed up on Surfers Paradise Beach in Queensland Australia. It is about 35 mm in length. The species swims upside-down and is accordingly countershaded for that position. فارسی: لیسه دریایی آبی‌رنگ گونه‌ای لیسه دریایی است که در تیره خاکستری‌لیسه‌سانان قرار دارد. Date 24 May 2009, 11:06 (UTC) Source Glaucus_atlanticus_1.jpg Author Glaucus_atlanticus_1.jpg: Taro Taylor from Sydney, Australia derivative work: dapete This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Losslessly cropped to show just the Glaucus atlanticus. The original can be viewed here: Glaucus atlanticus 1.jpg. Modifications made by Dapete. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 truetrue Original upload log[edit] This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Glaucus_atlanticus_1.jpg licensed with Cc-by-2.0 2007-03-12T12:19:25Z Bricktop 3024x1998 (592589 Bytes) {{flickr | description = These 2 ''Glaucus atlanticus'' were washed up on Surfers Paradise Beach in Queensland Australia. The larger one is about 35 mm in length. | title = Nudibranch | photographer = Taro Taylor | photograph Uploaded with derivativeFX

Also known as Sea Swallow, Blue Glaucus, Blue Sea Slug, Blue Ocean Slug and Lizard Nudibranch.Washed ashore at Bronte Beach, Sydney, NSW.Diet: Bluebottle (physalia physalis)Speciality: Stores stinging nematocysts from the bluebottle within its own tissues, which is additional protection from predationDiscovered: 1777, Forster

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

DescriptionAPI Blue Sea Slugs washed up onto MacMasters Beach. For more info checkout dougbeckers.com/bluebottle-control Date 28 January 2012, 16:05 Source Blue Sea Slug - Glaucus atlanticus Uploaded by Jacopo Werther Author Doug Beckers from Macmasters Beach, Australia

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: Glaucus lineatus = Glaucus atlanticus Français : Glaucus lineatus = Glaucus atlanticus Date 1868 [for 1864] Source "Anatomiske Bidrag til Kundskab om Aeolidierne. Med 9 lithographerede Tavler", in Det kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, vol. 7 Author Rudolph Bergh Other versions This file has been extracted from another file: Glaucus lineatus (1).jpg

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Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!

Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is! It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing. Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic. Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!