A small Spotted Coral Blenny peeks out from a head of coral.
Spotted Coral Blenny
Category Archives: Marine Invertebrates
The Numbers Game #89
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 211. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Yellow Acorn Worm
I took this photo when I saw what looked to me like a couple of brains resting on this sandy bottom. In fact they’re the castings of a Yellow Acorn Worm. These worms live under the sand and filter it to extract organic matter. The mounds are what’s left after this process.
I’m not likely to ever see, let alone photograph, an acorn worm. If they are dug up, the mass of sand inside them often causes their thin-walled bodies to burst!
An itty-bitty Whitemouth Moray Eel
This is the smallest Whitemouth Moray Eel I’ve seen here. It was in a hole in the rock high up in the water so I could get quite close. I’ve taken a lot of eel photos over the years and I thought, even as I took these photos, it would be ironic if this little eel shot out and was the first one to bite me. Happily, it remained where it was, next to a Red Pencil Urchin, which gives a sense of scale.
Crowned Jellyfish
It’s been a long time since I saw a Crowned Jellyfish so naturally, on a recent swim, I saw two of them. The one was up near the surface while the other pulsed along closer to the rocks and coral.
Red Pencil Urchin
I couldn’t finish the month without one of these.
Posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Spanish Dancer egg sac
There are two kinds of Spanish Dancer nudibranchs in Hawaii, the Yellowmargin Spanish Dancer and the Redmargin Spanish Dancer. Both lay egg coils that look like roses. The Yellowmargin’s coils are pink and the Redmargin’s are red.
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The Numbers Game #82
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 204. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Graham's Island 