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 10 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 10 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 10 years ago