Can anyone ID this BC Invertebrate?
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tanksforthememories
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Looks like a Golden Dirona nudibranch...
Funny you should say that, I'm currently processing a photo of a Golden Dirona I took on the very same dive 
Unfortunately, I don't think that's it. At the base of what you can see in the picture is a white cylindrical body extending into the crack. In the centre of the white "branches" (for a lack of a better term) there appears to be an anemone-like mouth.
Unfortunately, I don't think that's it. At the base of what you can see in the picture is a white cylindrical body extending into the crack. In the centre of the white "branches" (for a lack of a better term) there appears to be an anemone-like mouth.
Red Sea Cucumber, Cucamaria albido
tanksforthememories
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Check out Nudibranch Gallery you may get some ideas there. Whatever it is, you had a nice find! Good luck.
I'm pretty sure Max is right. It's not uncommon to have the body of the animal buried in a crack in the rock, and only the feeding tentacles visible. I've never seen one so limp, though -- I wonder if it was unwell.
Thanks! I never thought of cucumbers. Do the Red Sea Cucumbers really have that much colour variation within the species? The body was rather cream/white, with orange frills. Some more photos of different ones from the same dive, The second with a VERY red Red Sea Cucumber
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I think it's actually the Orange sea cucumber, Cucumaria miniata. Here's another image:
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