Tuesday, November 1, 2011

111030 Sekudu

Abundance of polyps and slugs at Sekudu.

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Cerberilla slugs.

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Dendrodoris denisoni spotted by Rene.

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Gymnodoris inornata.

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Tiny nudibranch spotted by Mei Lin. Possibly Jorunna sp.. No idea what thse white pellets in the gills are.

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Dendrodoris (fumata?) spotted by Chay Hoon.

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Quite a few of these Elysia slugs in the seaweed.

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Quite a few Polybranchia orientalis in the seaweed too.

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Elysia ornata.

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Philinopsis lineolata spotted by Mei Lin.

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This is the tiny blue bioluminescent crustacean (Ostracoda?).

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Small Taeniura lymma.

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Hippocampus kuda spotted by Kok Sheng.

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Quite a few of these sea pens.

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Zoanthids.

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No idea what this is. It was attached to the seaweed below it and did not contract like an anemone when disturbed.

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Many Boloceroides mcmurrichi.

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This looked very much like a swimming anemone too although the stripes were longitudinal.

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Transparent anemone. The body column resembles Edwardsiidae.

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Tiny unknown anemone Kok Sheng and Mei Lin first saw at Punggol.

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This was probably the most commonly seen anemone besides the swimming anemones.

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Pseudoceros indicus with what looks like a female skeleton shrimp with distended brood pouch on it.

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Did not get a good look at this very elusive flatworm, possibly a silt flatworm.

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Shrimp under a rock.

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Three Scutus under another rock.

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Colochirus quadrangularis.

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Not sure what sea cucumber this is. About 5 cm long.

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Goniodiscaster scaber.

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Nepanthia belcheri.

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Painted Astropecten.

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Astropecten indicus.

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Asterina coronata.

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Wild boar at Chek Jawa.

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