Thursday, March 19, 2009

What is this sea creature




I found it at Dayang on the weekend. I thought it was part of a sea coral - then it moved.

9 comments:

Teddy Ursa said...

It belongs to the classification of nudibranches. I think it might be this one: http://divegallery.com/pianthin.htm

Jelissa Mei said...

the markings on the antenna certainly look similar.

Erwin Loh said...

Looks yummy.

Jeremy N said...

Looks like a polychaete worm. Not familiar with the different species of polychaeta though.

That's not coral, by the way. It's one of the few calcified brown algae. Padina sp, I think.

Jeremy N said...

That's what I first thought, looking at the antennae.... but it's appendages suggest that it's a metamerically segmented organism. Nudibranchs are gastropod molluscs (unitary bodied).

janice chan said...

nudi.. sea dragon

adelyn kwan said...

Pteraeolidia ianthina
Similar one HERE..

Yauming YMC said...

Adelyn wins!!!!

Andrew Hall said...

it's a BBQ victim waiting to be fried. =)