Melanochlamys diomedea eggs

These eggs belong to a sea slug - I don't recall spotting any of the adults, but they must be pretty abundant considering the number of egg cases that I saw on the beach. They may have been buried in the sand - had I dug near the eggs I may have found one.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/meladiom

comments (3)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

That's incredible, when zooming in, it looks like there's a million in them! Posted 8 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  Question - should I ID the species on this one? I think I can be sure that it's the right one, the egg cases are pretty distinctive and there's, as far as I can tell, only one species of melanochlamys on our beaches, but it seems perhaps a bit odd to have the eggs be the species intro, then again it is where they start :) Posted 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Yes, please do ID it. Odd or not, this is the species, it doesn't matter in which stage of life it is. Posted 8 years ago