25 Nov 2016

Critter of the Week: Nudibranchs

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 25 November 2016

DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki talks about the Nudibranch - which means naked gill.

There are around 80 species found of nudibranchs found in New Zealabd waters. They are molluscs, belonging to the gastropod family, along with snails, paua and limpets).  A nudibranch is also known as a sea slug, and they are essentially gastropods that have little or no shell (or lose it at early stages of development).