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Diving on the Costa Brava, if we look very closely at the small single celled alga Acetabularia mediterranea, known as Mermaid’s cup, we may find on the cup an amazing tiny animal with a rare and special ability. Many divers mistake it for a nudibranch but it is actually a sacoglossan, a...

I found a number of these nudis in the shallows when returning from a research dive. The first pic shows one on my finger. They were 2 -3 cms long with an opaque white body, black-tipped antennae, and a light brown shell. I've been diving here (Costa Brava) for 12 years and never come across...