The team made many new and interesting finds:
Strange looking hermit crab.
Hidden peacock sole. The outline gave it away.
It is quite a gentle fish.
A leech on the peacock sole.
Crinoid. It had only 10 arms, perhaps a juvenile?
Batik slug.
More strange slugs I have not seen before. Hoping Chay Hoon can ID them for us.
Healthy population of bonnet snails on this beach.
Spines on the head are very sharp. It is easy to cut oneself on a buried snail while digging in the sand.
Buried snail attacking a sand dollar, from underneath.
A live button snail. These snails have many appendages and a rather interesting mouth. They can swim by wriggling in the water to escape danger.
There were some olive snails.
Fig snail as it is found. These snails are not often seen on our shores.
Full body shots of a couple of fig snails.
Sinum moon snail. These snails secrete a lot of slime.
Never saw this snail alive before.
Interesting looking Astropecten. Marcus has a video of it burrowing into the sand quite differently from the smaller and more commonly seen Astropecten sea stars.
There were a couple of stranded brittlestars, possibly victims of birds.
A small stretch has quite a few of these Laganum sand dollars which seem to be emerging from the sand. They were also all facing the same direction (towards the sea) coming out.
Lovenia heart urchin.
Smooth sea cucumber.
No idea what this is, looks like a sea cucumber with sea anemone tentacles.
2 comments:
The white slug is a Philine sp.
http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22341
The black one is another Philinopsis sp. but not sure if it is a darker version of the batik one above.
Thanks Chay Hoon!
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