Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Seasquirt.jpg

Nudibranch laying an egg spiral on a sea squirt[edit]

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**Original** - Nudibranch (*Nembrotha lineolata*) laying an egg spiral on a sea squirt (*Polycarpa aurata*) near Metinaro, East Timor.

Reason: Just breathtaking animal photography, and marine at that.
Articles in which this image appears: Nembrotha lineolata, Nembrotha, Ascidiacea, Benthos, Macrobenthos
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
Creator: Nick Hobgood

Support as nominator --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nominator.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:20, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Talk about eye-catching… Greg L (talk) 02:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:09, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very eye-catching indeed. JFitch (talk) 08:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Finally a good underwater picture Hive001 contact 11:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, obviously. J Milburn (talk) 11:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, beautiful. --Golbez (talk) 15:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Blatant, unregretted support. --Lucas Brown 20:26, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It is not at all clear what is going on here. Makeemlighter (talk) 03:01, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The sea slug is pooping eggs onto the purple thing, isn't that obvious? hehe. If you note Nudibranch#Reproduction there you see that they typically lay their eggs in a spiral pattern. — raeky T 04:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Red-brown and white stripey thing (on the right, with the little "wings") is a sea slug, and is wrapping around a sea squirt (the purple and white lump) in order to lay its eggs (the twirly orange pattern). (Please correct me if I'm wrong...) J Milburn (talk) 10:05, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - That Nudibranch article would actually probably be the highest EV usage of this image, if it were there, since the image isn't an altogether clear depiction of what the species actually looks like. Makeemlighter (talk) 05:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stunning! Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 04:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is one of the more vibrant images I have seen.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:25, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support That slug has no idea how amazing we think it is. Are those gills on its back? --I'ḏ♥One 02:38, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Affirmative. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:58, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wow. --Avenue (talk) 13:29, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Seasquirt.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:19, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]