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School of Barracudas, Scoglio del Medico, Ustica
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Saturday, September 30, 2017
19 votes

Posidonia meadows
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Tuesday, October 3, 2017
17 votes

Photograph nudis in these parts of Arabic Sea is a bit more challenging than elsewhere given the poor visibility. But when you succeed, beautiful colors come out as for this Phidiana m. shotted at the wreck dive site_Goa (Canon100,1/200,f20,i.125)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Monday, March 27, 2023
17 votes

Ustica Island
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Sunday, August 13, 2017
16 votes

Xunaan-Ha cave diving
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Wednesday, July 5, 2017
15 votes

Coral blenny_Aquarium dive site_Havelock island_2023 (Canon100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Saturday, March 11, 2023
15 votes

Dreamgate
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Friday, April 19, 2019
14 votes

a shot taken during cave diving in Xunaan -ha ,Chemuyil, Mexico. Artificial lights permit to admire mineral formation ..otherwise always in dark state.
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Wednesday, December 14, 2016
13 votes

Islas del Rosario
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Sunday, May 14, 2017
13 votes

Islas del Rosario
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Tuesday, July 11, 2017
13 votes
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Cratena nudibranch while eating.Its flashy coloration is ... by Antonio Venturelli
Cratena nudibranch while eating.Its flashy coloration is aposematic, i.e. it warns predators of the intrinsic poisonousness if by chance an inexperienced fish were to eat it would spit it out due to the terrible taste.
(Canon100, 1/250,f16,iso10...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Mexican barnacle blenny_El Morro_Vallarta_2021 (Canon100... by Antonio Venturelli
Mexican barnacle blenny_El Morro_Vallarta_2021
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso125)
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 28, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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Two Cratena are quietly feeding on hydroids in the sea of... by Antonio Venturelli
Two Cratena are quietly feeding on hydroids in the sea of Casteldaccia. See the open mouth flanked by the oral tentacles. Notice the vertical orientation of the mouth that is the most common configuration in all sea slugs.(Canon100,1/200,f20,i.160)
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date posted posted: Monday, September 25, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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If you were to count all the shades of white, purple, ora... by Antonio Venturelli
If you were to count all the shades of white, purple, orange, yellow, blue and pink contained in a Mediterranean Flabellina I think one page (in small print) would not be enough! Sept_2023 (Canon100, 1/200,f13,iso100)
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 24, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Cratena nudibranch_2023 (Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200) by Antonio Venturelli
Cratena nudibranch_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 15, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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A Felimare nudi emerges from a seaweed called Padina pavo... by Antonio Venturelli
A Felimare nudi emerges from a seaweed called Padina pavonica. _Not everyone knows that an active ingredient is extracted from P. pavonica & used in cosmetics for skin moisturize . Natura always reserves surprises!_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f16,i.200)
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date posted posted: Friday, September 15, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
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Flabellinae are often found perched in precarious positio... by Antonio Venturelli
Flabellinae are often found perched in precarious positions. But by waiting a bit you can often find the right angle to see them almost entirely, as in this photo.Sept_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso160)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Nudis are usually on top of something. This has climbed o... by Antonio Venturelli
Nudis are usually on top of something. This has climbed onto a hydroid twig. I don't worry if body is out of focus. Indeed, the photo can be even more beautiful the more the body is blurred, as long as the head is clear.
(Canon100,1/200,f14,i.200)
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date posted posted: Monday, September 11, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Chromodoris tricolor nudibranch_2023 (Canon100,1/250,f20... by Antonio Venturelli
Chromodoris tricolor nudibranch_2023
(Canon100,1/250,f20,iso200)
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 10, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Arabian Sea India
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A glass shrimp close up. Its beautiful eyes say me hello,... by Antonio Venturelli
A glass shrimp close up. Its beautiful eyes say me hello, I am here!Andamans_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20, iso125)
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 7, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea India
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Cratena nudibranchs_August 2023 (Canon100, 1/200,f20,iso... by Antonio Venturelli
Cratena nudibranchs_August 2023
(Canon100, 1/200,f20,iso160)
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 1, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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An Elysia timida nudibranch close up. In the background a... by Antonio Venturelli
An Elysia timida nudibranch close up. In the background a tube-shaped hermit crab, also very small, whose carapace does not exceed 10 mm in length, with a white & red,the eye stalks very long & black eyes_
August 2023.
(Canon100,1/200,f16,i.125)
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date posted posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Felimare tricolor close up. Here I've cropped the shot a ... by Antonio Venturelli
Felimare tricolor close up. Here I've cropped the shot a bit. Let's say about 30%-40% of the image while still making sure I kept the head with rhinophores quite in focus_August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f16,iso160)
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Couple of Cratenas_August 2023 (Canon100, 1/200,f20,iso200) by Antonio Venturelli
Couple of Cratenas_August 2023
(Canon100, 1/200,f20,iso200)
2 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, August 28, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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I usually find this type of Flabellina where there is a h... by Antonio Venturelli
I usually find this type of Flabellina where there is a hidden current, however it prefers to shelter in creeks. Once found it is pleasant to shot when it opens its cerata upwards as in this photo taken ~15 mt deep_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f16,i.160)
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 27, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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A pair of Cratena peregrina nudibranchs crawls across the... by Antonio Venturelli
A pair of Cratena peregrina nudibranchs crawls across the seafloor near Casteldaccia, Sicily.
Photo taken in August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
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date posted posted: Friday, August 25, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
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This Flabellina a. with its lively colors seems to say "... by Antonio Venturelli
This Flabellina a. with its lively colors seems to say "be careful"!.After feeding on hydroids, they keep intact the stinging nematocysts contained therein & transfer to cerata for defense against predators_July2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,i.200)
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date posted posted: Friday, August 25, 2023
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Cratena nudibranchs_August 2023 (Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160) by Antonio Venturelli
Cratena nudibranchs_August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Lately I've enjoyed finding two or more Cratenas close to... by Antonio Venturelli
Lately I've enjoyed finding two or more Cratenas close to each other, I wait and, as if they knew I want to photograph them, they approach each other to give me some shots while they are tangled together_August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
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date posted posted: Monday, August 14, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Felimare tricolor of Mediterranean Sea_June 2023 (Canon1... by Antonio Venturelli
Felimare tricolor of Mediterranean Sea_June 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 12, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Close up on the bright eyes for this little Hermit crab. ... by Antonio Venturelli
Close up on the bright eyes for this little Hermit crab. Photo taken during a dive in Scilla in 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f20,iso200)
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 12, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Photographing from below can be difficult, but it pays of... by Antonio Venturelli
Photographing from below can be difficult, but it pays off especially if you can find a nudibranch that's on top of a twig like in this photo of a beautiful Flabellina_Scilla_July 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f22,iso200)
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 10, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Beautiful Flabellina affinis photographed at "La Montagna... by Antonio Venturelli
Beautiful Flabellina affinis photographed at "La Montagna of Scilla" dive site,Italy_July 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f22,iso200)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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The Flabellina affinis nudibranch , an intricate lilac co... by Antonio Venturelli
The Flabellina affinis nudibranch , an intricate lilac colored tangle, whose head I often fail to locate, is always fascinating for me to photograph_July_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 5, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Felimare tricolor_June 2023 (Canon100,1/200,f14,iso200) by Antonio Venturelli
Felimare tricolor_June 2023
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date posted posted: Friday, August 4, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Prostheceraeus Giesbrechtii_July 2023 (Canon100,1/200,f1... by Antonio Venturelli
Prostheceraeus Giesbrechtii_July 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso200)
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date posted posted: Monday, July 31, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Two Cratena nudibranchs dancing in the current."La Formic... by Antonio Venturelli
Two Cratena nudibranchs dancing in the current."La Formica" dive site_Casteldaccia,Sicily_July2023 (Canon100,1/200,f20,iso200)
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 30, 2023
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