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Thursday, March 19, 2009

What is this sea creature




I found it at Dayang on the weekend. I thought it was part of a sea coral - then it moved.

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  1. It belongs to the classification of nudibranches. I think it might be this one: http://divegallery.com/pianthin.htm

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  2. the markings on the antenna certainly look similar.

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  3. Looks like a polychaete worm. Not familiar with the different species of polychaeta though.

    That's not coral, by the way. It's one of the few calcified brown algae. Padina sp, I think.

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  4. That's what I first thought, looking at the antennae.... but it's appendages suggest that it's a metamerically segmented organism. Nudibranchs are gastropod molluscs (unitary bodied).

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  5. it's a BBQ victim waiting to be fried. =)

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