Photo and copyright by  CRISTIAN MAGNANI

Cumanotus beaumonti Eliot, 1906
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Size: 3 cm
Depth: 16 m 
Date 25 April 2006 
Place:  Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy
Dive site:  Paguro Wreck

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Cumanotus beaumonti is a beautiful aeolid nudibranch thought to life only in the Northern Atlantic (Scotland and Norway). This photo proves this nudibranch to be living in the Mediterranean as well and is the second seing ever. Now scientists are wondering that Mediterranean might be part of the habitat of this unusual nudibranch.

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