Critter ID?

[tursiops]

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?

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Night picture?

 

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@Kimela

First shot is definitely a slug, not sure where you were when you photographed it, perhaps I missed the location in other posts.

The name "Flying Dingbat" is unfamiliar to me but from my reference books which are mainly Indo-Pacific critters, it looks like some form of Headshield Slug Siphopteron sp.

Nice Toadfish shot

My first thought was the "feathery thing" above it was the gills of a nudibranch.

 

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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?

Looks like a Tritoniopsis sp nudibranch

 

[Kimela]

First shot is definitely a slug, not sure where you were when you photographed it, perhaps I missed the location in other posts.

The flying dingbat was at Palancar Horseshoe. It sure is handy that my camera date/time stamps the pics, and my Geo 4.0 computer includes the day/time when it downloads the info to my phone. I try to enter the dive site info for each dive while still on the boat, before I forget - then I add pics to those logs, usually later in the day.

 

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Palancar Horseshoe

Ha ha, thanks.

I had to Google that, so Cozumel in Mexico.

 

[Kimela]

I had to Google that, so Cozumel in Mexico.

Oh, yes! You must have found this thread by looking at 'Recent Posts'. We're on the Cozumel sub-forum, so I assumed you knew I meant Cozumel.

 

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Oh, yes! You must have found this thread by looking at 'Recent Posts'. We're on the Cozumel sub-forum, so I assumed you knew I meant Cozumel.

doh

 

[nwflyboy]

First one is definitely not a Spanish Dancer - I've seen those several times (Indonesia), and that photo doesn't look anything like them, except "red". Flappin' Dingbat sounds more likely. No idea on the others.

 

[cozcharlie]

Think this is kind of already resolved , but certainly looks like gastropteron chacmol, which at least some ID books call the flapping dingbat. Chacmol is evidently a variation on the spelling for a Mayan figure according to some sites

Happened to find this post from 15 years ago—I am assuming this is you @jlyle ?

[The Sea Slug Forum - Gastropteron chacmol]

 

[jlyle]

Think this is kind of already resolved , but certainly looks like gastropteron chacmol, which at least some ID books call the flapping dingbat. Chacmol is evidently a variation on the spelling for a Mayan figure according to some sites

Happened to find this post from 15 years ago—I am assuming this is you @jlyle ?

[The Sea Slug Forum - Gastropteron chacmol]

Yes. T'was I.