The pelagic animal game

[Scuba_Jenny]

Hee heee

 

[agilis]

Larval Man o' War?

 

[smellzlikefish]

I am having trouble "liking" the answers.

As Scuba_Jenny probably figured out with her clever hover maneuver, the animal in question is a physonnect siphonophore. These colonial animals are very common offshore. They drift around with stinging nematocyst laden tentacles splayed out in a web that they use to catch unsuspecting prey and bare skin of divers.

Here is the next one. Go ahead and try your hover technique on this one!

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

is there a common name to physonnect siphonophore?

new critter..
Uh, that is a pretty animal watermarked?

 

[smellzlikefish]

Wow, you are good! I am afraid that most siphonophores don't have a common name. If it helps, they are in the Phylum Cnidaria with corals, jellies, and anemones and are closely related to man-o-war.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Wow, you are good! I am afraid that most siphonophores don't have a common name. If it helps, they are in the Phylum Cnidaria with corals, jellies, and anemones and are closely related to man-o-war.

the new one.. hmm.. swirling around.. is it an eel of some sort?

 

[smellzlikefish]

Not an eel. Think simpler.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

A worm?

 

[knotical]

The spiral suggests univalve - to me.

 

[cgills]

Appears to be what we commonly refer to as Venus's Girdle.Cestum veneris???