Mysteries of the deep

Keywords: Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Diving, Scuba, Scuba Diving,Lady Musgrave Laggoon, fish

Hi, These 6 marine species are unknown to me and I would very much appreciate if you could please assist me in identify these.

Name: thelning

Hi,Have finally got the mystery solved as follows:#1 is a sea cucumber, phylum Echinodermata, Class Holothuroidea. You'll find many images of sea cucumbers on this website which also have good images of many other invertebrates from Guam. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/reefs/guamimg/index.htm#2 Baseodiscus quinquelineatus#3 Phylum Echiura. It is the proboscis ("tongue") of an echiuroid but we can't tell which species it is or if it's related to the family Bonellidae. Members of this family have proboscis with a Y-shaped tip like Bonellia viridis. There are many species in this family.4# Cerianthid anemone5# Polychaete worm, family Terebellidae, only the feeding tentacles are showing.6# Sea cucumber, family Synaptidae. On the Guam website you can find several genera which have "beading" - Euapta, Opheodesoma, Polyplectana, and Synapta

Name: thelning

Hi Lars,
Thanks for your comment and hope you will be able to find some of these species in you books.
Regards Tony

Name: lars, © Author: Lars Hemel

Hmm, the second might be some kind of garden eel or conger although it is hard to recognize anything that looks like a head. The third is some kind of jelly I think and I remember seeing the fourth as well but what its name is! I am interested and will look it up in the books.