Tanah Merah - Day Of The Scorpionfish

The biodiversity of this stretch of Tanah Merah is looking to be pretty awesome. There was also an amazing Scorpionfish turnout today, I was seeing them practically everywhere.


First time seeing the body color of the extremely shy Oval Moonsnail (Polinices mammatus).


Topshell snail bodies are pretty interesting. This one seems to have growths that look like a pair of zoanthids.




Arabian cowrie (Cypraea arabica).


This snail is pretty large, around 8-10cm long.


Persian carpet flatworm (Pseudobiceros bedfordi).


Onchs.




Beaded nudibranch (Hoplodoris nodulosa) found by Chay Hoon.


Looks like 3 Black prickly nudibranchs (Atagema intecta) huddling together.


Ceratosoma sp, amazing find by Chay Hoon.


Unidentified flatworm feeding.


Fanworm.


So many different species of fish :








Moray eel.




Scorpionfishes.


Possibly a grouper.


Halfbeak.


Flathead.


Filefish.


Chay Hoon also found a pair of seahorses clutching at a straw in the high shore.


Red egg crab (Atergatis integerrimus).


An amazing crab found by Kok Sheng. Another was spotted as well hiding under a rock.




Very cute squid (Suborder Sepiolida) spotted by Kok Sheng.


More squids.


Could this be one of the dreaded sandflies?


Favid coral.


Shrimp, it promptly dove into a tubeworm burrow to escape.


I finally get to see Haeckel's anemone (Actinostephanus haeckeli) today.