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SCUBA Diving Banderas Bay, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
with Alicia Hermosillo
June 8-15, 2008
Alicia Hermosiilo & Kirstie Kaiser holding the plaque with the description and commemorating the naming of Polycera kaiserae

June 8, 2008
Kirstie Kaiser's Lab, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Inside Kirstie Kaiser's Macalogy Laboratory, Kirstie & Alicia posing with a plaque for the nudibrach (Polycera kaiserae) Ali named for her freind and mentor
Kirstie Kaiser, and some images of Alicia'a Opisthobranch Sculptures that Kirstie has on display in her lab.
People: Kirstie Kaiser, Alicia Hermosillo, Kathryn Cody, & Chris Grossman

Hypselodoris agassizii

June 9, 2008
Las Islas Marietas, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Species: Hypselodoris agassizii, Glossodoris sedna, Tambja abdere, Bajaeolis bertschi, Tambja eliora, Toxopneustes roseus, Flabellina fogata, Aplysina fistularis, Isostichopus fuscus, Phataria unifascialis, & Phataria unifascialis

Muraena lentiginosa (Jewel Moray Eel)

June10, 2008
Los Archos, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Species: Aplysina fistularis, Rhopalaea sp., Flabellina bertschi, Flabellina fogata, Neosimnia aequalis, Pacifigorgia sp., Muraena lentiginosa, Gymnomuraena zebra, Berthellina ilisima, Ophichthus triserialis, Antipathes galapagensis, Tubastraea coccinea, Phataria unifascialis, Pseudoceros sp., Eucidaris thouarsii, Serranus psittacinus, Alphestes immaculatus, Fistularia commersonii, Diodon holocanthus, Pomacanthus zonipectus, Muricea sp., & Isostichopus fuscus

People: Alicia Hermosillo, Chris Grossman, Kathryn Cody, Tony

Tentaciones, an Amate Print by Nicholas de Jesus

June 11, 2008
Tentaciones, an Amate Print by Nicholas de Jesus
I bought this amate etching in at Galeria Indigena in the art district of Puerto Vallarta.   The gallery did an ousstanding job of crating and shipping the framed print to me.

Glossodoris sedna

June 12, 2008
Majahuitas, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Species: Epinephelus panamensis, Pinctada mazatlanica, Berthellina ilisima, Thelepus sp., Mexichromis tura, Polycera alabe, Astropyga pulvinata, Tritonia pickensi, Lophogorgia sp., Cucumaria flamma, Glossodoris sedna, Flabellina marcusorum, Phidiana lascrucensis, Muricanthus princeps, Rhopalaea sp., Urobatis concentricus, Pharia pyramidata, Diodon holocanthus, Dendrodoris fumata, Ophiocoma alexandri, Glossodoris dalli, Aeolidiella chromosoma, Pinctada mazatlanica, Sessibugula translucens, Prionurus punctatus, Spirobranchus giganteus

Tambja abdere

June 13, 2008
Majahuitas, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Species: Phataria unifascialis, Ophiocoma aethiops, Phidiana lascrucensis, Flabellina marcusorum, Doto sp. 3, Tritonia pickensi, Lophogorgia sp., Flabellina bertschi, Polycera alabe, Flabellina marcusorum, Doriopsilla janaina, Bajaeolis bertschi, Tambja abdere, Sessibugula translucens, Acidops fimbriatus, Rhopalaea sp., Hypselodoris agassizii, Jenneria pustulata, Octopus sp., Muraena lentiginosa, Diaulula aurila, Tritonia pickensi, Ophiothela mirabilis, Lophogorgia sp., Anthopleura sola, Anthopleura sp., Pennaria disticha, & Bunodosoma californica
People: Alicia Hermosillo, Kathryn Cody, & Tony

Neosimnia aequalis (Gorgonian Spindle Snail)

June 14, 2008
Las Islas Marietas, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Species: Glossodoris sedna, Tambja abdere, Sessibugula translucens, Doriopsilla janaina, Favorinus elenalexiae, Janolus barbarensis, Cerberilla pungoarena, Aeolidiella chromosoma, Pleurobranchus areolatus, Umbraculum umbraculum, Enneanectes species C, Neosimnia aequalis, Ophiothela mirabilis, Lophogorgia sp., Echidna nebulosa, Elysia diomedea, Acanthemblemaria macrospilus, Epinephelus labriformis, Phataria unifascialis, Flabellina marcusorum, Limaria pacifica, Spirobranchus giganteus, Podochela sp., & Stenorhynchus debilis

People: Alicia Hermosillo & Tony

Elysia diomedea (Mexican Dancer) June 15, 2008
Los Archos, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Species: Flabellina bertschi, Flabellina fogata, Cuthona sp. 5, Dendrodoris fumata, Mexichromis antonii, Mexichromis tura, Favorinus elenalexiae, Limacia janssi, Umbraculum umbraculum, Callioplana sp., Telemactis panamensis, Facelina sp. 1, Rhopalaea sp., Protemblemaria bicirris, Muraena lentiginosa, Pinctada mazatlanica, Scorpaena mystes, Gymnomuraena zebra, Berthellina ilisima, Phidiana lascrucensis, Pleurobranchus areolatus, Flabellina marcusorum, Elysia diomedea, Muricanthus princeps, Pinctada mazatlanica, Pleurobranchus areolatus, Aplidium sp., Phyllaplysia padinae, Callioplanidae sp., Protemblemaria bicirris, Pleurobranchus areolatus, Berthellina ilisima, Didemnidae sp., Aplidium sp., Eugorgia aurantiaca, & Iguana iguana
People: Alicia Hermosillo, Kathryn Cody, Chris Grossman, & Tony
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