Sea Critters

Flamingo Tongue 1. a type of sea snail the shell is smooth creamy color and its mantle comes out and covers its shell with the spotted design, enjoys feeding on the purple sea plum, Atlantic Ocean Bahamas
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 Common Flamingo Tongue
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 Fingerprint Cyphoma white mantle with numerous finger print-liked designs of black and gold. Like to attach to gorgonians.
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 Indo Pacific Nudibranch on stony coral
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Magnificent Chromodoris Nudibranch on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Notice the large crown of feather-like anal gills.
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 Nudibranch with fringe-like cerata with white and purple tips. Papua New Guinea
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 Two Nudibranchs Mating with an orange scrimp on their backs Papua New Guinea
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 Spotted cleaner Shrimp perch on the tentacles of anemones, and sway their bodies and wave their antennae to attract fish to clean.
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Banded Coral Shrimp
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 Golden Coral Shrimp
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 Nautilus live at a 1000 feet. A cage was lowered down and they brought them up to 80 feet. Amazing, this is no longer done. I feel blessed to have seen and held one. Papua New Guinea
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 Caribbean Reef Squid
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Ocellated Frogfhish Caribbean
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 Yellow Frogfish
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 Yellow Longlure Frogfish Saba
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 Peacock Flounder change color and markings to blend with background
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Orange Marble Sea Star in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
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 Knobby Fromia Sea Star in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
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 Cushion Sea Star Knoby spines form net-like geometric design of contrasting color.
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 Giant Basket Star hide during the day, at night it opens lacy arms to feed.
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Crown of Thornes Sea Star devours everything in it's path. Can be very destructive if not controlled.
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 Fat Fingered Sea Star
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 Coralimorph Australia
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 Social Feather Duster Violet Variety Crowns arranged in circular patterns extend from tubes, very shy instantly retract when approached.
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Bearded Fireworm has bristles along it's sides. It can cause painful burning sensation if touched.
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 Caribbean Reef Octopus with eyes raised to see me from behind the coral
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 Common Octopus sleeping with one eye open St.Kits
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 Scorpionfishe are masters of camouflage, they lie motionless blending with the background
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Crocodile Flathead, this is a head shot he is about 2 feet long. Paupa New Guinea
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 Crocodile Flathead, this is his eye with his lacy eye lid. Paupa New Guinea
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 Bandtail Searobin prefer shallow areas of sea grass, sand and coral "walking" about on ventral fins while useing finger like spines to turn over rubble.
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 The Searobin has a wing like pectoral fins opens them out and swims away. Florida
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Winged Comb Jelly float in open water the body is translucent. The light was flowing through the white tentacles
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 Channel Clinging Crab is huge about 3 feet across his shell Bonaire
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 Flamebox Crab Roatan Honduras
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 Male Sea Lion Galapagous
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Marine Iguana Galapagous
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