Question Any Idea What This is?

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This weird creature was crawling on the sandy bottom in Raja Ampat. Here's the video link. Anyone know what it is? It was fascinating to watch.
 

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Dragon Seamoth, or Little Dragonfish, part of pegasidae, related to seahorses and trumpetfish.


Agreed - I’ve also seen this called a Seamoth:
 
:) I wish I had that kind of encyclopedic knowledge, but here’s what I did: fullscreen the video, then scrub around until I found a clear view with minimum background distractions. Then captured that and fed it to the Seek app. Presto.

Linne Lens (a similar app) identifies it as a Dragon Seamoth; another common name for the same scientific name (Eurypegasus Draconis).
 
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