APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

A-P-H-O-T-O Wildlife Stock Image Library
Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828) - Yellow skirt slug (Sea slug images)
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Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- 3.5mm juvenile 1

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- 3.5mm juvenile 2

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- 3.5mm juvenile 3

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- rhinophores 1

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- gills 1

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- with 0.1mm division rule 1

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- scrape sample area / habitat 1

Yellow skirt slug
Okenia elegans
- location 1

This 3.5mm juvenile specimen was found in a small sample of Coral Weed, Corallina officinalis, scraped with a penknife from the edges of a lowershore pool at Skilly. south of Newlyn, Cornwall. 26.03.20. The species reputedly grows to about 80mm in length.

Okenia elegans is not a common species in the UK and has a western distribution. Its food preference is the sea squirt Polycarpa scuba which is fairly common on the shore on low spring tides. The species of nudibranch, not so common.

Okenia elegans Yellow skirt slug images
The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help
people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.