6/4 Monterey Pics

[justleesa]

the starfish looks like it is going to start singing "Singing in the Rain"...lol cool shot

 

[Larry C]

The last one looks like a siphonophore.
Is your sunpak working yet?

Thanks. I wish! I haven't heard anything back, and I've seen a couple of posts that confirmed the procedure and address, so I'm just sending it. Soon as I find a proper box and and hour to deal with UPS! Is a siphonophore a creature or is it reproductive? I was thinking an egg sack of some sort.

 

[KidK9]

Nice, I love the first fish photo!

 

[maractwin]

A siphonophore is an adult creature, related to jellyfish. The Portuguese man-of-war is the best known example. While your picture may well be a siphonophore, I'd guess it's a salp, which is a colony of pelagic tunicates chained together. Siphonphores tend to have several different body forms in the colony, whereas all of the individual animals that make up a salp look alike.

See http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?inhab=182 for a siphonophore picture, and http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Salp for some salps.

-Mark

 

[CompuDude]

I'm no ID expert (far from!), but a salp would have been my guess, too.

 

[Larry C]

After looking at the San Diego clip, I'd have to agree. It looks just like that one. Thanks for the help. I'm hopeless at ID's.

 

[SparticleBrane]

Last one looks like a salp chain.

 

[Larry C]

Interesting creatures. According to the website, they're the closest thing to us without a spine. They have spinal cords, organs, etc. What was really cool is, the thing was luminescent inside the translucent tube-colorful too. Looked kind of like a color illustration of a DNA chain.