No, really! I am reading it for scientific research! And the colors too!

March 29, 2017 8:39 PM

Nudi Pixel is a web-based identification tool for nudibranchs [a group of soft-bodied, marine gastropod molluscs] worldwide using photographs as the first point of identification. It is underpinned by up to date scientific classification.
posted by not_on_display (6 comments total)

(This is one of the many reasons I added a JimWoodring tag.)
posted by not_on_display at 8:49 PM on March 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Gah! Why are these sites all so terribly designed. Dividing them by genus? Try color maybe or location + color if you're appealing to non-scientists. I mean, I know nudibranchs reasonably well and I couldn't find a thing on that site.

The evolution of What Bird/ iBird should be required study for anyone making an ID site.
posted by fshgrl at 8:54 PM on March 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Needs bigger pictures to show the beauty of the 'branchs!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 9:35 PM on March 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

Needs bigger pictures to show the beauty of the 'branchs!

That could be true (but it doesn't sound particularly humble).
posted by LeLiLo at 10:57 PM on March 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

And it's down.
posted by zamboni at 5:37 AM on March 30, 2017

It's up again!

I think this appeals to me as a non-scientist in that I can poke around without needing to know genus or species or blahblah ginger anything, and I'll soon find something weird and colorful and what looks like psychedelic glass sculpture instead of an actual living being.

But that said, a good starting point is their Picture of the Week section. (Last updated three years ago.)
posted by not_on_display at 7:18 PM on March 30, 2017