This is Nembrotha cristata, a colourful sea-slug found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean. They grow to about 50mm in length and have black bodies with a strange luminous green "trim".
Like most nudibranchs, they deliver a painful string. They do not produce the stinging cells themselves but incorporate them into their own tissues from their prey, stinging jellyfish.
Reference:
http://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/nembrotha-cristata-nudibranch/238
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Like a little green sea Pegasus.
ReplyDeleteLooks at those wings! 😊