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Nudibranch ecology

Sea slugs (opisthobranchs) are one of the most diverse marine invertebrates in the world with more than 5000 species has been described and there are many that have still to be described. The biggest group of opisthobranchs is the nudibranchs, well known by experienced divers due its brilliant colors and amazing powers of camouflage.

We are conducting the first study on opisthobranchs in Mozambique in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History and contribution of the expert Dr. Nathalie Yonow. We are now looking diversity and spational and temporal distribution of these amazing animals.

So far more than 100 species have been found, included a few undescribed species. Belt transect technique is used to collect spatial and temporal data of opisthobranch distribution and focal diver technique to find rare and deep species.
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