110714 Changi

Nice to be back once again to the very first low tide shore I visited. It is not a shore I visit often, my last visit being in April last year.

This shore has many cerianthids, sea cucumbers and sea pens.


Melo melo. It seemed to be eating something.


The same Melo melo about 30 min later.


Another Melo melo.



Cerianthids.


What looked like a very odd sea cucumber turned out to be two sea anemones attached to the same shell.


What the oral disk of the above anemones look like.


Quite a few of these mystery anemones were here as well.


Many small Stichodactyla haddoni. It seems that they either do no grow large here or none of them survive long enough.


Strawberry anemone. The pink dots on its body column are somewhat visible through the mouth.


Another strawberry anemone trying to eat something, not sure what.


Goniodiscaster scaber.


Astropecten indicus.


Possibly a young cake star (Anthenea aspera).


The most common sea cucumber at Changi, Colochirus quadrangularis.


Cercodemas anceps.



Sea cucumbers hiding under a rock, not sure which species.


Purple cucumarid sea cucumber. Note the numerous small polyps in the sand around it.


Ria found this sea apple.



Sea pens.


This sea pen had at least one porcelain crab in it, can you see it?


This one had a false scorpionfish hiding under it.


Callionymus schaapii.


Looks like a dead flathead. About 25 cm long.


Ria found this beautiful crinoid.


Octopus hiding in a glass jar.


A couple of sea hares. Right one looks like geographic sea hare (Syphonota geographica), left one not sure, maybe same species but pattern looks different.


Sixe spines along the side, making this crab likely to be Charybdis sp..



Stone crabs (Myomenippe harwicki) hiding in various corners.