Milne Bay Papua New Guinea Nudibranchs, volumes 1 and 2

Dan Bolt · Issue 127, Jul/Aug 2022 · pp. 55–57

Products mentioned: Milne Bay Papua New Guinea Nudibranchs Volume 1, Milne Bay Papua New Guinea Nudibranchs Volume 2

Recently released into the iBook Store are two new electronic books that are the culmination of 10 years of diving in the Milne Bay area of PNG. Incredibly, these books contain details of almost 1000 nudibranchs and heterobranchs. This includes 490 undescribed species and 185 that have never been recorded in any previous publication. These figures compliment not only the extreme diversity of the area, but are also testament to the huge amount of effort that has been put into the project over the years. Finding, identifying and cataloguing so many of these amazing creatures is a mammoth undertaking. Some years ago I co-authored a similar iBook cataloguing just 75 species of slug that are found in my local patch of water. I thought that was quite a big effort so I can- not begin to image just how many hours of work have gone into these two amazing volumes. I’ll say it again… nearly 1000 sp…