What's this BIZARRE animal?

[The Publisher]

Pterotrachea coronata aka Sea Elephant

Phylum Mollusca / Class Gastropoda / Subclass Prosobranchia / Order Mesogastropoda / Family Pterotracheidae




image credit:Ocean Oasis

You can see more photos and read about this amazing animal here

Thanks Thal for putting me on the right track, as it became a mission!

SeaDragon, that was an awesome find.

iDiveChick, thanks for locating the right image credit.

[shinek]

Well done guys, I did some really basic searches, but wasn't starting with the knowledge you guys have so got nowhere. I must have watched that video clip a dozen times hoping to spot something new.
Thanks for giving me back my work day, not sure what I'll do with it, but I'm sure management will think of something!

[thalassamania]

Well done guys, I did some really basic searches, but wasn't starting with the knowledge you guys have so got nowhere. I must have watched that video clip a dozen times hoping to spot something new.
Thanks for giving me back my work day, not sure what I'll do with it, but I'm sure management will think of something!

That's it. Good job. I've never seen one. Now that I'm in Hawaii I'll have to be on the lookout for that little sucker.

[Papa Bear]

When I saw it I knew it reminded me of a chambered nautilus! Same family! Very nice research and you beat me to it, but I was closing in! Very nice video and catch!

[thalassamania]

The Chambered Nautilus is Nautilus pompilius, that's Animalia > Mollusca > Cephalopoda > Nautilida > Nautilidae

This guy is in the Pterotracheoidea and has nothing more in common with the Chambered Nautilus than the fact that are both molluscs.

[Papa Bear]

Cephalopoda? Hummm? You missed it completely! So okay! I knew it wasn't what you said it was!

[The Publisher]

I think Papa meant that as tongue in cheek.....

[thalassamania]

I think Papa meant that as tongue in cheek.....

Absolutely.

[Papa Bear]

Ya Ya, that's the ticket!