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This tiny crab was using the empty turban snail shell just like a hermit crab.
Not too sure what was going on before I leaned down to get a closer look but the hairy crab was scurrying away from the sponge crab and the sponge crab was stripped of its sponge (the yellow sponge) and had a few legs missing. Was the hairy crab trying to eat the sponge crab?
Another sponge crab which had acidians growing on it instead.
Closer look a the ascidians.
This nearly transparent and very tiny crab was actually swimming when I first saw it. It had the claws up and flapping.
Tiny fish, next to gumdrop ascidians and baby swimming anemones for scale.
S junior, a tiny stonefish.
Mei Lin found this beautiful green sea moth (Pegasus volitans).
Leathery filefish (Chaetodermis penicilligerus).
This heart urchin (Lovenia elongta, 3-4 cm long) was crawling on the seagrass when I first saw it.
China moon snail (Natica onca) dragging a button snail into the sand.
Quite a few grey bonnet snails (Phalium glaucum) on a sandy stretch. One seemed to be attacking a sand dollar. Mei Lin later found a Japanese bonnet snail (Semicassis bisulcatum) as well.
Ria and Kok Sheng were busy photographing their nudi finds (top Discodoris lilacina, bottom Dendrodoris nigra).
Chay Hoon later found 3 Gymnodoris nudibranchs.
Geraldine found this slug that feeds on sea grapes.
Saw a couple of these Pleurobranchus forskalii sidegill slugs.
Polybranchia orientalis, a slug with many very very sticky leaf-like cerata which it autotomises as a defense mechanism.
Geographic sea hare (Syphonota geographica) with its flaps wide open.
Flatworm that looks like phlegm.
Many starry flatworms (Pseudobiceros stellae) seen today. This one seemed to be ejecting some gumdrop ascidians.
Not sure what flatworm this is.
Very neat looking swimming anemone (Boloceroides mcmurrichi).
Periclimenes brevicarpalis anemone shrimps have a scintillating blue line running down the middle.
Many Salmacis urchins.
A worm at the mouth of a Salmacis urchin.
Super flaring at Jurong island, which Ivan aptly likened to the eye of Sauron.
2 comments:
Wonderful finds! Thanks for sharing : )
Thanks Joseph!
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