Links

There are many sites on the web with sea slug or nudibranch content. Here are a collection of sites that are useful. Heading the list are a few large sites, probably well known to most of you, with extensive collections of photographs and background information. The rest of the sites are alphabetically arranged in categories, usually geographic.

We are trying to make the list as comprehensive as possible. If you know of a site which is not included or find that a URL has changed please contact billr@seaslugforum.net.


A few general sites

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Bibliographia Nudibranchia - Gary McDonald's Bibliographia Nudibranchia is a comprehensive collection of publications that mention nudibranchs. The updated second edition is available here as a pdf.
URL: http://repositories.cdlib.org/ims/Bibliographia_Nudibranchia_second_edition/

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Bibliographia Nudibranchia - Nudibranch Systematic Index - To accompany the 2nd Edition of Gary McDonald's Bibliographia Nudibranchia, here is the updated Nudibranch Systematic Index which lists all the names in the nudibranch bibliography. Available as a pdf.
URL: http://repositories.cdlib.org/ims/Nudibranch_Systematic_Index_second_edition/

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List of the Worldwide Food Habits of Nudibranchs - by Gary R. McDonald and James W. Nybakken
This list is an attempt to compile all of the published food data for nudibranchs. More than 4600 nudibranch papers were perused in an effort to find as much of the published food data as possible. More than 1000 papers mentioned nudibranch food. Included are all of the articles that they were able to obtain prior to June 1996.
URL: http://www.theveliger.org/nudibranch_food.html

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Mediterranean Slug Site - Erwin Koehler's collection of photographs of Mediterranean opisthobranchs. There are also collections of photos from the North-eastern Atlantic and North Sea, Madeira and Canary Islands, Red Sea, Maldives, Mauritius, Philippines, Thailand, West-Pacific and an 'Opisthobranchs of the World' page of links to pictures
URL: http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm

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Mollusca Opisthobranchia - Steve Long's site - home of the Opisthobranch Newsletter, Listserver etc.
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URL: http://www.seaslug.com/html/seaslug_com.html

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Nudibranchs of the British Isles - Bernard Picton's excellent online Guide to British Nudibranchs

URL: http://www.seaslug.org.uk/nudibranchs/

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Opisthobranchs of the World - Erwin Koehler's comprehensive list of links to opisthobranch photographs on the web. Arranged both alphabetically and taxonomically.
URL: http://www.medslugs.de/Opi/Opisthobranchia.htm

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The Okinawa Slug Site - Bob Bolland's nudibranchs from Okinawa
URL: http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/

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The Slug Site - Mike Miller's site with images and information of opisthobranchs from the east Pacific coast of North America and Central America, Caribbean and Western Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines).
URL: http://slugsite.tierranet.com/

Antarctica

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Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island and McMurdo - Peter Brueggeman's site with many marine animal photographs, including ten opisthobranchs. Also included are full background notes on each species. [Many of the opisthobranch photos are copied on the Slug Forum on the Antarctica Page].
URL: http://www.peterbrueggeman.com/nsf/fguide/index.html

Australasia

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Checklist of New Zealand Mollusca - Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone prepared by Hamish Spencer, Richard Willan, Bruce Marshall and Tara Murray. This checklist includes direct links to relevant references for each species, including links to relevant pages in the Sea Slug Forum. A valuable reference work.
URL: http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/

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Gareth Jones' Pacific Hideaway Charters - Gareth Jones, a regular contributor to the Forum of interesting photos from northern New Zealand, has a nudibranch page on his Pacific Hideaway Charters website overviewing animal he has found at the Poor Knights Ids.
URL: http://www.divenz.co.nz/nudibranchs.htm

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Skip's Underwater Image Gallery. - Ian Skipworth's site 12 images of New Zealand Nudibranchs plus several other pages of underwater fauna, lots of links to other related sites - images, diving and equipment.
URL: http://www.ianskipworth.com/suig/index.shtml

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Wayne Ellis's Australian Nudibranch Page - Background notes on classification, natural history, reference list, nudibranch of the month, brief notes and species lists for Port Stephens and The Sunshine coast with links to images. Download Australian Nudibranch News.
URL: http://www.diveoz.com.au/nudibranchs/nudibranch.asp?info=main_page

Eastern Pacific

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A taxonomic key for Pacific Coast Nudibranchs - The Taxonomic Key for Pacific Coast Nudibranchs is a comprehensive illustrated key to the nudibranchs of the west coast of North America. The only name I can find to acknowledge is 'Shannon'.
URL: http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/classes/bio161l/NUDI/nudi.html

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Gary McCarthy's Nudibranch Page - Gary McCarthy's Underwater Photography Site contains a page of nudibranchs from Southern California.
URL: http://www.underwater-photos.com/pgindex1.html

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Metridium Fields - Clinton Bauder's Dive Site which includes photos of a number of nudibranchs from Monterey, California.
URL: http://www.metridium.com

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Nudibranchs of Costa Rica - Peter Ajtai, in collaboration with staff at the University of Costa Rica, has set up this site to record the nudibranchs from Guanacaste, on the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It has some excellent photos and background information.
URL: http://www.slugophile.org

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The Slug Site - Mike Miller's site with images and information of opisthobranchs from the east Pacific coast of North America and Central America, Caribbean and Western Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines).
URL: http://slugsite.tierranet.com/

Europe and Atlantic Islands

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Check List of European Marine Mollusca (CLEMAM) - Serge Gofas and Jacques Le Renard's Check List of European Marine Mollusca (CLEMAM) includes a good section on the opisthobranchs found in European waters.
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/base/malaco.html

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Erwin Koehler's Mediterranean Slug Site - Erwin Koehler's collection of photographs of Mediterranean opisthobranchs. There are also collections of photos from the North-eastern Atlantic and North Sea, Madeira and Canary Islands, Red Sea, Maldives, Mauritius, Philippines, Thailand, West-Pacific and an 'Opisthobranchs of the World' page of links to pictures.
URL: http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm

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Mediterranean Sea Nudibranch Page - Miquel Pontes Garcia's Mediterranean Sea Nudibranch Page.
URL: http://www.marenostrum.org/opistobranquios

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Nudibranchia on the coast of central Norway - Torkild Bakken's and Jussi Evertsen's website is a record of their continuing project surveying the central coast of Norway from nudibranchs. As they make new discoveries new material is added.
URL: http://www.ntnu.no/~vmzotbak/nudibranchia/

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Nudibranchs of Norway - Frank Emil Moen's and Erling Svensen's photo site. No English text - 27 excellent images with notes.
URL: http://www.marinbi.com/nudibranchia/index.htm

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Nudibranchs of the British Isles - Bernard Picton's British Nudibranchs site includes the complete book with dozens of great photos and other information on the biology of opisthobranchs including links to related sites.
URL: http://www.seaslug.org.uk/nudibranchs/

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Opistobranquios de la Costa de Granada - Luis Sánchez Tocino's large collection of photographs of opisthobranchs he has found on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
URL: http://www.ugr.es/~lstocino/welcome.htm

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Scottish Nudibranchs - Jim Anderson's Scottish Nudibranchs site is a selection of his photographs of nudibranchs and other sea slugs taken around Scotland, with some data on the specimens.
URL: http://www.scottishnudibranchs.co.uk/scotnud1.html

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Wolfgang Seifarth's nudibranch and flatworm site - Wolfgang Seifarth's Nudibranch and Flatworm Site contains a section on Mediterranean nudibranchs.
URL: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/index.html

Fossil

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Fossil Holoplanktonic Molluscs - Arie W. Janssen's site contains some photos of fossil planktonic molluscs and is gradually expanding with references and other information.
URL: http://sites.waldonet.net.mt/ariewe/

Indian Ocean

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Mediterranean Slug Site - Erwin Koehler's collection of photographs of Mediterranean opisthobranchs. There are also collections of photos from the North-eastern Atlantic and North Sea, Madeira and Canary Islands, Red Sea, Maldives, Mauritius, Philippines, Thailand, West-Pacific and an 'Opisthobranchs of the World' page of links to pictures.
URL: http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm

Japan

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Nudibranchs - A collection of underwater photographs of Japanese nudibranchs on Yasuhiro Shirai's extensive website.
URL: http://www.sea-slug.com/

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Nudibranchs of Hachijo Island - About a dozen photographs of Nudibranchs from Hachijo Island.
URL: http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~furuse/watching/SLUG/SLUG.html

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Okinawa Slug Site - Bob Bolland's Okinawa Slug Site is an extensive and growing collection of photos and information on Okinawan opisthobranchs. There are links to descriptions of area and environmental problems of the region
URL: http://www.rfbolland.com/okislugs/

Malaysia

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Sharif's Malaysian Slug Site - Sharif's Malaysian Slug Site has great photos and information on opisthobranch species from Malaysian waters.
URL: http://www.eperak.com/slugsite/

Miscellaneous

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Learning and Memory in Aplysia - Bjoern Bremb's website on neurobiology of Aplysia
URL: http://brembs.net/learning/aplysia/

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NIH/University of Miami National Resource for Aplysia Facility - This Aplysia mariculture facility in Miami provides high quality, laboratory cultured Aplysia for biomedical researchers throughout the world. This site gives an overview of the facility which ships over 25000 animals a year. Also access to their newsletter Slime Lines.
URL: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/sea-hares/

Miscellaneous photo sites

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Cybereef - Phillip Slosberg's Cybereef has some interesting West Pacific nudibranch photos as well as other numerous marine topica, photography, diving, fish, gear etc.
URL: http://www.cybereef.com

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The Shark Cage - Gordon Smith's excellent opisthobranch photos from many parts of the world.
URL: http://www.angelfire.com/mi/sharkcage69/

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The Vibrant Sea - Jeff Rosenfield's photographic site has some wonderful images of opisthobranchs from many sites in the Pacific and Atlantic, as well as sharks, other fish, and other invertebrates.
URL: http://www.vibrantsea.net/

West Atlantic and Caribbean

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The Slug Site - Mike Miller's site with images and information of opisthobranchs from the east Pacific coast of North America, Central America, Caribbean and Western Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines).
URL: http://slugsite.tierranet.com/

Western Pacific

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Erwin Koehler's Mediterranean Slug Site - Erwin Koehler's collection of photographs of Mediterranean opisthobranchs. There are also collections of photos from the North-eastern Atlantic and North Sea, Madeira and Canary Islands, Red Sea, Maldives, Mauritius, Philippines, Thailand, West-Pacific and an 'Opisthobranchs of the World' page of links to pictures.
URL: http://www.medslugs.de/E/mssmain.htm

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Jeff's Nudibranch Page - A couple of dozen photographs of Nudibranchs from the Philippine Islands. Good level of general information included - great site for an introduction to the underwater world.
URL: http://divegallery.com/

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Steve Norvich's Nudibranch Page - 11 photographs of nudibranchs from the South Pacific with brief notes.
URL: http://underwaterphotos.com/nudibrch/nudindex.htm

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Sulawesi Sea Slugs - Better known for his Scottish nudibranch site, Jim Anderson has compiled a selection of photos of nudibranchs he photographed in Bunaken Marine Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
URL: http://www.sulawesiseaslugs.com/

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The Slug Site - Mike Miller's site with images and information of opisthobranchs from the east Pacific coast of North America and Central America, Caribbean and Western Pacific (Hawaii, Philippines).
URL: http://slugsite.tierranet.com/