Fish ID help

[craracer]

Just got back from Roatan and need some help identifying a few critters. My identification books are extremely limited, so I'm sure these will be easy for many of you.

 

[craracer]

One more for you:

 

[lmorin]

I would say your fish are a redspotted hawkfish and a slender filefish. The worm is a species of fireworm (bearded?). What comes to mind for the shrimp is a large-eyed shrimp. No idea about the jellyfish species.

 

[archman]

It looks *mostly* like a cabbagehead jelly. But there's some weird jelly "slab" on the side that I can't make out at all.

How very strange...

 

[craracer]

I wish I had got a better/closer photo of it

Here's the only other photo I have of it:

 

[archman]

Well, if it's a native species, I'll go with a cabbagehead. Some people call them cannonballs, or even jellyballs. They're a harmless species that traps plankton in secreted slime.

Jellyballs, ha ha.

 

[craracer]

I wonder if it got beat up/picked on a lot when it was younger.

 

[Cudabait]

Well, I'll have to go with Archman on the cabbagehead AKA Cannonball...actually it is pretty common in the offshore waters of the gulf of mexico....also a favorite food of the atlantic spadefish. as far as the shrimp goes.... probably a red night shrimp, even more probable if you shot it at night. (Cinetorhynehus manningi) Yep, bearded fireworm. Also, the shrimp in the upper background with the fireworm appears very much like a snapping shrimp.

 

[craracer]

Thanks for the help everyone! To make my life better and increase my knowledge, I've ordered the Reef fish ID, coral ID, and reef critter books

 

[Missdirected]

Well, if it's a native species, I'll go with a cabbagehead. Some people call them cannonballs, or even jellyballs. They're a harmless species that traps plankton in secreted slime.

Jellyballs, ha ha.

Yep, CannonBallJelly.

Effect on Divers, as Archman stated, none

Cannon ball... does this mean we can start pitching them at one another? :wink1::wink1:

fftopic: Heya Arch - we have been inundated with the "Pink Meanie" here. Bad stuff. Have you heard of them?