Underwater Photography by Jay Torborg 

"Red Dendrodoris"

The Dendrodoris family of nudibranchs use a long tube through which they secrete digestive enzymes into sponges, then suck up the partially-digested sponges. This specimen is Dendrodoris rubra. 

This nudibranch was photographed in about 45 feet of water off the south Kohala Coast near the Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Photographed with a Nikon N90s in a Sea&Sea NX90 housing with two Ikelite 200 strobes. Nikon 60mm f2.8 macro lens. Fuji Provia 100F transparency film scanned with a Nikon LS-2000.

Copyright Jay Torborg  2000