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Diaphorodoris sp. 2
Image courtesy of David CowderyPhoto taken at Anilao, Batangas, Philippines
March 2018
Nikon D800 with DS160 substrobes
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Diaphorodoris sp. 2 in (NSSI) (Undescribed) Well, Mike and David have proposed presenting an interesting and recently problematic species for this week's BOW. Terry Gosliner's crew at the California Academy of Sciences' discovered this new species years ago during their ongoing research on the opisthobranch diversity of the Verde Passage in the southern Luzon region of the Philippines. Since then it has only been seen a couple of times. If you put an orange-red marginal band on it and change the color of the crest along the middle of the foot to orange you would have Diaphorodoris mitsuii (Baba 1938)(Courtesy of Bill Rudman's Sea Slug Forum). Otherwise, externally they are nearly identical. The real differences lie internally however. Most species of Diaphorodoris are temperate, but this is one of three known tropical species. Nice find David. Sammamish, WA 98074 Aug., 2018 Send Dave email at davidwbehrens@gmail.com
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David Cowdery
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Dave Cowdery is a retired bio-medical Engineer and is the inventor of the Alumina/Titanium hermetic feedthrough (1970) for implantable bionics and the first to introduce a Titanium casing. This invention created the first bionic implant (pacemaker) with a service life that could be measured in years rather than months and is the basis for todays huge multi billion dollar bionic industry. David is a Divemaster with over 5,500 dives experience and is based near Byron Bay in Australia. David is also a keen competitive road bicycle rider covering over 400 km most weeks. Photographic equipment used Nikon D800 camera with DS160 substrobes.
Send Dave mail at divec@ozemail.com.au
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