Living Kalinga ornata
December 18, 2000
From: Tim Hochgrebe

Dear Bill,
This is my first posting to the Seaslug Forum. We have established a new divers retreat in Byron Bay, New South Wales, called PLANULA (http://www.planula.com.au) and I am in the water with my videocamera most days of the week. The other day on a safety stop around Julian Rock this "thing" came floating past me and I got some nice video sequences of it. It turned out to be Kalinga ornata as found on Neville Coleman's old Nudibranch book title page. I just thought I share these images with you and I might start posting to this beautiful resource more regularly.
Tim Hochgrebe
tim@Planula.com.au
Dear Tim,
Thanks for the photos and the interesting observations. As you will have seen from Mary Jane Adam's earlier message, Kalinga is a bottom dweller, living in sandy mud habitats and has seldom been seen and photographed alive. I don't know if your observation of it floating past is a normal means of transportation, but I would suspect it may have got caught up in some current or tidal movement. It would be certainly interesting to hear of other similar observations.
I would welcome any other postings you would like to make to the Forum. It's a place where anyone interested in these animals can share their finds, their questions and their photos.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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