Squid Larva! Look and you can see it is swimming backwards and has swimmerets in the right place and what looks like Tentacles putting everything in the right place.
Squid Larva! Look and you can see it is swimming backwards and has swimmerets in the right place and what looks like Tentacles putting everything in the right place.
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Where was it shot? Anyone know?
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No, I am talking about the red colored rocks! lol......Opening shot is a Hawks Bill turtle trying ti sleep under the edge of the coral! Is that what we are talking about? Come on where are your sea eyes?
It was shot in Bonaire.
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An exact ID is way beyond my ken, but I'd bet on a opisthobranch in the suborder Gymnosomata. That'd make it a "Sea angel", also known as a clione, and previously known as a pteropod, which are a group of small swimming sea slugs.
On the other hand it could be a jelly that I'm unfamiliar with, but I doubt it due to the way it swims.
Um... yeah, what he said!Originally Posted by thalassamania
There are so many things in the sea I never knew existed, and a Sea Angel is one of them. What a magnificent critter pictured below, whose author I cannot find to give credit to other than a screen name of bogleech.
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That Horned Clione shot was taken, I believe, by either Ron Gilmer or Richard Harbison of Woods Hole Oceanographic during a cruise aboard the R/V Endeavor that I made with them back in the mid 1980s. We left Iceland, skirted Greenland, put in to St. John's and would up back at the Hole on the same day that Ballard came back from his first Titanic expedition (it was a real circus that day). Anyway, while it looks like a tropical baby, that sucker is from the arctic.There are so many things in the sea I never knew existed, and a Sea Angel is one of them. What a magnificent critter pictured below, whose author I cannot find to give credit to other than a screen name of bogleech.
More Clione pics here.
The diver who shot the original video is here now, let's see if the still photo matches what he remembers he saw and shot.
The more I look at the original video compared to the followup photos, the less I am convinced it is a clione.
I noticed a lack of an orange visceral sack that is consistent with all other videos and photos of a clione. I also noticed that the locomotive wings on the cliones are anterior, whereas the original video the undulating wing is medial, and it appears dorsal rather than bilateral.
Thoughts?
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