Critter ID?

[CajunDiva]

It looks like a feather duster to me...

 

[Kimela]

It looks like a feather duster to me...

I looked up pictures of feather duster worms and I don't think it's a match either. Still stumped. Next stop, Amazon for the critter ID book.

 

[CuzzA]

Red feather star.

Possibly:
Heterometra crenulata - Graceful feather star - Taxo4254 - Wiki.nus

 

[tursiops]

Red feather star.

Possibly:
Heterometra crenulata - Graceful feather star - Taxo4254 - Wiki.nus

Wrong ocean.

 

[CuzzA]

Wrong ocean.

Okay. Maybe that species is rheophilic and found it's way here. Or it's unidentified.

Here's a start...

Of the 625 known species 550 are Feather Stars belonging to the order Comatulida which is divided into 17 families.

• Antedonidae
• Aporometridae
• Asterometridae
• Atelecrinidae
• Calometridae
• Charitometridae
• Comasteridae
• Colobometridae
• Eudiocrinidae
• Himerometridae
• Mariametridae
• Notocrinidae
• Pentametrocrinidae
• Ptilometridae
• Thalassometridae
• Tropiometridae
• Zygometridae

 

[tursiops]

Okay. Maybe that species is rheophilic and found it's way here. Or it's unidentified.

Here's a start...

Of the 625 known species 550 are Feather Stars belonging to the order Comatulida which is divided into 17 families.

• Antedonidae
• Aporometridae
• Asterometridae
• Atelecrinidae
• Calometridae
• Charitometridae
• Comasteridae
• Colobometridae
• Eudiocrinidae
• Himerometridae
• Mariametridae
• Notocrinidae
• Pentametrocrinidae
• Ptilometridae
• Thalassometridae
• Tropiometridae
• Zygometridae

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The only crinoids I know of (hey, I'm a physical oceanographer!) in the Caribbean are Comasteridae and Colobometridae. The Creature ID book Kimela is going to buy lists only

 

[CuzzA]

The only crinoids I know of (hey, I'm a physical oceanographer!) in the Caribbean are Comasteridae and Colobometridae. The Creature ID book Kimela is going to buy lists only
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I'm just a reefer, but if I were Kimela I'd call it Crinoid Kimelata and be done with it.

 

[Kimela]

I'm just a reefer, but if I were Kimela I'd call it Crinoid Kimelata and be done with it.

Yes ... I like that one ... !!!

 

[DandyDon]

The first is a slug (I assume)

I think that Tursiopse got it.

Flapping Dingbat bubble snail.

The very first is also known as "spanish dancer"

"The Spanish dancer is widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coasts of Africa, Red Sea included, to Hawaii and from south Japan to Australia"

The second is the red, feathery thing hanging down by the splendid toad fish.

Unspecified Crinoid.

 

[Kimela]

Here's another one to ponder. I know it LOOKS like a piece of bleached coral, but we don't think that's what it is. It's not connected to any other coral (that we can see). I chose not to crop it so you can see where it sits and that it's not attached to anything. My husband basically 'made' me take a picture of it - and I thought it was stupid because it looked like a piece of bleached coral! I didn't take a video, but husband said it was moving like an animal moves. We were at Cedral Pass. So ... thoughts?