This month the Rockpool Project is focussing on some of our coastline’s most colourful and diverse inhabitants- the sea slugs. In my internship with the Rockpool Project I’ve been looking at some of the iNaturalist data our fantastic volunteers and participants have helped collect.
This report will take you through an overview of all 140 species of sea slug that have been found around the UK coast, starting with the most common species recorded on iNaturalist and getting rarer the further down the table you get.
As you take a browse, does any species surprise you? How common a sea slug species is can vary hugely dependent on your location in the UK. I was very surprised to see that a species that’s vary rare where I live in Falmouth, Edmundsella pedata- the pink coryphella nudibranch, is the 5th most common in the UK!
Let us know which sea slugs are most common where you are, and which ones surprised you in our list.
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