Paguroidea hanky panky. They were actually holding claws for a while.
Polychaete. Are those eyes?
Another kind of Polychaete.
Saw a couple of these pinkish sea cucumbers.
Colochirus quadrangularis, not to be confused with Cercodemas anceps.
Cercodemas anceps, not to be confused with Colochirus quadrangularis.
Ria spotted this very orange Holothuria notabilis.
Sea cucumber feeding. Some sea cucumbers like to bury themselves in sand with only their mouthparts exposed. Some of the appendages can be seen bent towards the mouth in the middle, transferring caught particles.
Looks like a longspined scorpionfish (Paracentropogon longispinis) from the position of the first dorsal spine.
Boloceroides mcmurrichi, a common resident of this beach.
Anemone in very silty water. Not too sure what species, looks like a tiger/strawberry anemone from the 2 pink dots at the mouth.
Chay Hoon found this anemone drifting in the currents. It looks very much like an anemone that normally attaches itself to rocks, snails or hermit crabs.
Sea pen from the family Veretillidae.
The upper crab elbow crab entered into this defensive posture revealing a smaller crab (its mate?) under it.
Olive snail (Olividae).
Polinices didyma. This moonsnail looks similar to Polinices mammatus but whereas Polinices mammatus retracts into its shell at the slightest disturbance, this species is usually not shy at all.
A Laganum depressum test. An oddity for this beach. I only saw one.
Astropecten indicus.
2 comments:
Wow! I just wanted to say that your photos are amazing! I do research at Bukit Timah, so I see lots of cool nature stuff there and take lots of photos, but none are as fantastic as yours!
I also do a blog with a heavy nature bent- you can check it out at http://cbsingapore.blogspot.com
Thanks! May I ask what research do you do?
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