what IS this?!

[kwesler]

Seen @30' on Helgy's Cut in the Florida Keys. I jsut started playing with digital photography so I do not have strobes. It was 4-6" long and purple. I don't see anything quite like it in Paul Humann's book. Sea Hare and some kind of nudibranch have been suggested...oops! Help-I cannot post it-it is 140kb-can someone help?

Ken

 

[Dee]

PM on the way.

 

[kwesler]

thanks to Dee, who also identified it...Atlantic Deer Cowrie with it's mantle fully extended.

 

[debcov]

Cool pix kwesler. While we have several species of cowries in the Pacific...I have never seen a cowrie with its mantle out like that...Great find!

 

[divebunnie]

Cute picture, hedge hog meets slug.