{"id":3330,"date":"2012-03-18T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2012-03-17T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:16:22","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-nudi-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Nudi Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little spiral on a rock, an odd looking thing, a bright white against the reds and yellows of the sponges.  I spotted the spiral from some distance away across the cave.  But I know what to look for, sweeping the rock with my dive light.<\/p>\n<p>The nudibranch themselves are nearby, on the same face of the rock.  I find three white-margin nudibranch, two quite large at about 3cm, the largest I have seen this species. A much smaller specimen is close by, less than half the length of the adult.  These are a handsome species, always nice to find.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3299\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3299\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-44-12075-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"White-margin Nudibranch Egg Mass\" title=\"White-margin Nudibranch Egg Mass\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-44-12075-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-44-12075-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-margin Nudibranch (Glossodoris rufomarginata) egg mass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am surprised that the eggs are not quickly eaten by fish or other predators.  There must be some defense mechanism in play, a foul taste, a toxin, nudibranch are known to employ such tactics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3298\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3298\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3298\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-42-12075-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"White-margin Nudibranch\" title=\"White-margin Nudibranch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-42-12075-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/CE46-42-12075-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of White-margin Nudibranch (Glossodoris rufomarginata), 25ft depth at O&#039;oma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little spiral on a rock, an odd looking thing, a bright white against the reds and yellows of the sponges. I spotted the spiral from some distance away across the cave. But I know what to look for, sweeping the rock with my dive light. The nudibranch themselves are nearby, on the same face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Nudi Eggs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,23],"tags":[318,317,107,98,316],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}