The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Back in late June, someone kindly alerted me to the presence of some Onchidoris bilamellata over at Doran Beach.  I swung by and took a...

    A little orange to start your day!  This is a Cockerell's Dorid ( Limacia cockerelli ) nudibranch, photographed in the low intertida...

  Black-tipped Spiny Dorid ( Acanthodoris rhodoceras ), 16 July 2019. We've seen a few individuals of this nudibranch recently, all...

  A nice little nudibranch, Ancula gibbosa , photographed at Pinnacle Gulch on 5 July 2019.

  Three-lined Aeolid, Orienthella (formerly Flabellina ) trilineata on coralline algae.  Photographed in a tidepool on 8 May 2019.

Last September I posted about an interesting "sap-sucking sea slug" called Aplysiopsis enteromorphae .  The photographs accompanyi...

  Although there were more Hopkins' Rose ( Okenia rosacea ) nudibranchs around in 2015 and 2016, there are still some individuals p...

        Quite something, isn't it?   We think this is a Branched Dendronotus (Dendronotus venustus) .  Usually ...

Although expected to occur at Bodega Head based on range and habitat (low intertidal and subtidal rocky shores), this is the first time we...