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Original – The Nembrotha cristata is a species of sea slug or nudibranch of the family Polyceridae. This black creature, covered in green pustules can deliver a painful sting due to its absorbtion of the cells of the jellyfish that it eats. It resides in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean on reefs and can grow to be up to two inches.
Reason
The Nembrotha cristata is a rare species of nudibranch and is an interesting, unique subject matter to be used as the featured picture. This is a good quality picture, is attractive and pulls one into it, and seems to meet most of the criteria.
The head (is that the head? Could be its bum as far as I know; I'd sit facing that way if I was a tiny mermaid, so let's hope it is the head or tiny mermaid me is going to look pretty silly) is out of focus; I imagine there are technical challenges with getting everything in focus underwater, so I'll wait to see what the techy experts think. Belle (talk) 12:48, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I had a little think and decided so what if the head is a little bit out of focus? It's still a better view than you'd get of it if you were in the water with it yourself (unless you were a tiny mermaid of course, in which case you'd get a good view of it when you were saddling it up in the courtyard of your coral castle; don't worry, I've had this mermaid dreamworld all mapped out since the age of four.) Belle (talk) 21:45, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Haha it is its head Belle. I do feel however that the picture is good enough and the encyclopedic value is what matters and that is there. There are very few pictures out there of this creature so I think that it is one of the best pictures out there. Tortle (talk) 19:03, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Only if you zoom in a lot, at featured picture size, it would look fine and there almost no pictures out there that are of better quality. Tortle (talk) 21:24, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It's a nice picture, but we already have a featured picture of this exact species and it doesn't have a blurry head. I'm not sure how much more EV we get from a side view, if the only thing that is different is tzhe head (which is blurry). Mattximus (talk) 21:57, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well its over the 1500px criteria by a good amount and it really isnt too blurry unless you zoom in by a bit. It has more ev than the other since it blends in. I dont think theres a problem with having two featured pictures of the same subject as ive seen that already in the list/gallery of FPs. Thanks Tortle (talk) 01:33, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An interesting creature visually, but alas the tail is blurry too. I admit to knowing zilch about underwater photography, but as an observer I would like to see more sharpness. Sca (talk) 15:46, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
