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## New taxonomic classification ##Click here to visit the second section of this website - all species divided by order, family and genus.Continue here for the previous area based groupings - I hope this website will be a useful reference for the many nudibranch fanatics around the world. I use the term 'nudibranch' in the layman's reference to all the animals in the Opistobranchia subclass of the phylum Mollusca, rather than restricting it to the order Nudibranchia only. Sea slugs is another all-encompassing common name. I was introduced to nudibranchs when I started taking macro pictures back in 1985. These pages catalogue some of the hundreds of nudibranchs I have seen and photographed in over 3,200 hours of diving in over twenty countries. Some of these countries are not represented here due to most of the diving there being research or other work, and so I was not taking pictures for my own use. Indonesia 1, is from three intensive weeks in March 2004 at Lembeh Straits, N Sulawesi, along with a couple of days there in November 2007. The latter were part of a trip to N Sulawesi, based on Bunaken Island, and visiting Bangka Island as well. See Indonesia 2, which includes eight pictures from November 1994. Indonesia 3, is from a productive twelve day liveaboard in April 2007 to West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). This followed an amazing week at Scuba Seraya, NE Bali, which combined with a few days there in 2005 makes Indonesia 4. Malaysia 1 is from three busy weeks in October 2002 at Mantanani Island, NW Sabah. Thailand is from four weeks in March and April 2008 at the Similan and Surin Islands, and Richelieu Rock, Andaman Sea, combined with a shorter trip in 2002. Philippines is from two weeks in May 2009 at Anilao and Puerto Galera. All the above sections are grouped into families. Indonesia 5 and Indonesia 6 are from a two week liveaboard around the Alor, Flores and Komodo areas of Eastern Indonesia in May 2005, (which, with a few days at Scuba Seraya, NE Bali, produced about 100 species in just 19 days of diving), combined with a few days in both areas in March 2000. The other sections extend this over other areas where I have dived, including some older ones with little nudibranch hunting, to give a total of 1,437 pictures of 315 species. The identifications cannot be completely accurate (sometimes without dissection of samples to study the radula or teeth), but are done to the best of my abilities, with help from various websites and books, as detailed on the Links page, along with several nudibranch experts – thank you to them for their help. Some identifications have been amended by the Nudi Pixel experts. Please contact me if you find any errors or have any comments, or if you want any other information about these pages, or if you would like to use any of the pictures or purchase prints of them. Anthony Holley Places to visit in this website:
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