I have to add, that my fish knowlegde on the american pacific coast is pretty limited ;o)

Regards Flemming

Last summer vacation in Croatia we found this seaslug. After making some pictures, we were trying to find out what kind of slug this could be.
On showing the pictures in the divecenter they could not help because none of the people working there had ever seen it!
We started leafing trough all the available books and the closest we could come up with was Umbraculum Mediteraneum. It was not a picture, but a drawing, and the only slug that had this little shell on it’s back. During all the dives we’ve made those nearly 3 weeks, we’ve found 3 slugs of the same kind.
On returning home, I could not find a single picture of umbraculum mediteraneum, all we could find is Umbraculum umbraculum. The shell on top (the umbrella) is exactly the same as our slug, but the body is completely different, and the color even more so!
I will try to put a picture here for all of you to see! please let me know if you have seen this slug before or if you have found pictures that look like the same slug!
Thanks! greetings and keep wet

ps: can’t get the picture uploaded, don’t know what I’m doing wrong...I’ll ask my son later… sorry
Claudia

I’ve resized it, 800 x 600 and still get the message:
Error Message:  The file you are attempting to upload has invalid content for its MIME type.

Fishbase is confusing on this species. It shows 4 photos listed as Parablennius marmoreus but 2 of the photos are actually Parablennius pilicornis. Believe me, I know - I spend hours underwater doing blenny surveys.

Parablennius marmoreus comes from the Western Atlantic and an expert has told me that it would be almost as unusual to find this species in the Mediterranean as to find a new specieis. He suggested the Portuguese blenny, Parablennius ruber, but it doesn’t look like that. I have hundreds of photos, from all angles, and have taken the same species throughout the year with its varying colouration.

Claudia, you seem very good at identifying things. Any ideas?

There was a photo in a recent contest here of the same blenny taken on Cap de Creus, Costa Brava, by Robert from Germany (but now I can’t find it). If you see this post, Robert, do you know the species’ name?

For information the picture was taken at the dive site Black Rock, 23.02.2008 Myanmar / Andaman Sea.
Thanks a lot!

Matthias

Moderated: Our POTW Participant Onsene from Slovenia asked:
“I would like to know this fish name!!!” for his picture of
the week in 2006, week 47 * click on the link review it.

Here in Hawaii we call them Cornet Fish.

I have a photo of one on my website at:

example - what species is shown on below image? I like to know these things