What's this BIZARRE animal?
35 seconds in.....
From a distance I thought reef squid, but when the footage got closer, I see not a bilateral set of fins, but a single dorsal fin undulating for propulsion. The end has what looks like an Elph shoe curl, lol.
This one has me stumped.
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No idea what it is though
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?
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NO, I think he is asking about the critter he filmed after the turtle.
I don't know exactly what that is, but it looks to be some form of Zooplankton. I am not a biologist, so that is just a guess.
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.
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