{"id":4892,"date":"2012-07-14T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2012-06-24T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T07:20:13","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-sphinx-nudibranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4892","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Sphinx Nudibranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a distance it looked like another common P. varicosa, a nudibranch I see all the time on the reef.  Getting closer something was different.  No protuberances, no yellow, what was it?  Simply a juvenile that has not developed the full colors and pattern?  Not knowing what it was I proceed to take a few photos of the critter.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting the books it quickly becomes apparent, it was a P. sphingus I found and photographed.  A new species for me!  I carefully read through the descriptions of the various dorid nudibranch found in Hawai&#8217;i again.  I need to look closer, there are some lookalikes to be aware of.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4893\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4893\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CE59-29-12175-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Nudibranch\" title=\"Sphinx Nudibranch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4893\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx Nudibranch (Phyllidiopsis sphingis) at 25&#8242; depth, Puako<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a distance it looked like another common P. varicosa, a nudibranch I see all the time on the reef. Getting closer something was different. No protuberances, no yellow, what was it? Simply a juvenile that has not developed the full colors and pattern? Not knowing what it was I proceed to take a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Sphinx Nudibranch&#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":[5,23],"tags":[107,495,98,37,496],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}