Bathydevius caudactylus is the first nudibranch known to live in the deep water column.
Notes on verification
Directly supported by the peer-reviewed species description (Robison & Haddock 2024) and consistently corroborated by MBARI press materials and multiple independent science journalism outlets, though all trace back to the same original source.
Sources
- Remarkable new swimming sea slug in the deep sea | ScienceDaily (sciencedaily.com)
- https://www.mbari.org/news/mbari-researchers-discover-remarkable-new-swimming-sea-slug-in-the-deep-sea/ (mbari.org)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063724001845 (sciencedirect.com)
- https://www.mbari.org/animal/mystery-mollusc/ (mbari.org)
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/glowing-mystery-mollusk-finally-identified/ (scientificamerican.com)
- https://www.sciencealert.com/ghostly-creature-deep-in-the-ocean-is-like-nothing-weve-seen-before (sciencealert.com)
- https://www.science.org/content/article/glowing-deep-diving-sea-slug-mystified-scientists-now-it-has-name (science.org)
- https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/1213159044/ocean-mystery-mollusk-sea (npr.org)