Octopus & Chromodoris daphne

November 29, 2002
From: Sean P. McMahon


Gudday, I really enjoy this site. I thought I'd send in this picture, its not a great shot but its interesting. The photo of a Chromodoris daphne and an octopus was taken at Shiprock, Port Hacking [Sydney, NSW, Australia] in 14 meters of water (7/11/2002), there are a lot of Chromodoris daphne there at the moment. What happend was the octopus came out of its hole to have a look at me, in doing this it knocked the nudibranch off the sponge above it and it landed on the octopus's head. The nudibranch crawled around on the octopus's head for at least a minute before crawling back onto the spounge above. The octopus ignored the nudibranch the whole time.
Regards,
Sean.

sean.mcmahon1@defence.gov.au

Thanks Sean,
I'm glad you saw how the slug got on the octopus's head - otherwise it would have become another of 'life's little mysteries'
Cheers,
Bill Rudman

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