{"id":8931,"date":"2011-09-23T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:45:08","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-fellows-nudibranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8931","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Fellows Nudibranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen and photographed these fellows a few times. Endemic to the Central Pacific, the species is commonly seen in dives on the west coast of Hawai&#8217;i. The surprise this time was what I found nearby. A flash of bright white is quickly spotted in the beam of my light as I explore the cave. Two spots appeared on the cave roof. The first is the nudibranch, quickly recognized as a Fellows Nudibranch.<\/p>\n<p>I take a couple photos, even though I have seen this species often enough before. I do not immediately notice that the second spot, somewhat hidden in a crevice, is not the same. Upon another look it turns out to be an egg mass, bright white like the slug that laid it. A neat spiral of white eggs against the algae covered rock.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8932\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=8932\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8932\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CE22-33-11260-DM.jpg\" alt=\"Fellows Nudibranch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8932\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Fellows Nudibranch (Hiatodoris fellowsi) on a cave roof at about 40ft, Malae Point, Kohala, and egg mass was about 6&#8243; away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8934\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=8934\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8934\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CE22-32-11260-DM.jpg\" alt=\"FFellows Nudibranch Egg Mass\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8934\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An egg mass from a Fellows Nudibranch (Hiatodoris fellowsi) on a cave roof at about 40ft, Malae Point, Kohala, an adult was about 6&#8243; away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen and photographed these fellows a few times. Endemic to the Central Pacific, the species is commonly seen in dives on the west coast of Hawai&#8217;i. The surprise this time was what I found nearby. A flash of bright white is quickly spotted in the beam of my light as I explore the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Fellows 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":[1001,1000,107,98,37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931"}],"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=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}