Need ID Help

[Aggie Diver]

I'm working on the mother of all galleries (300+ photos) from my Bahamas trip.

Is there a good online resource for fish/coral life identification online? There's some things I need help identifying (either never found out what they were or forgot).

Here's one of them...

Thanks,

AD

 

[Noodlefish]

Not much help, I'm afraid. They are colonial tunicates (you can tell by the two chambers), but apart from that...

Tuni's are notoriously difficult to identify (a bit like encrusting sponges and the like)... you could try Distaplia occidentalis for the bottom one - but it's a big guess. The top one could be a kind of painted tunicate? But I really have no idea. I never got the hang of them, even after spending eight weeks on an expedition identifying them!

 

[Walter]

Painted Tunicate and Mangrove Tunicate, but like Noodlefish, I'm not sure.

 

[blacknet]

Hello,

AAHHH yes the coral ID stuff. well there's a *VERY* good site that I would recomend you visit, that's www.reefs.org Or just drop on irc to their channel (on the web page) at xnet's server and the channel is #reefs. If you want an id and any info about reef's these are your guys. If it can be answered they can do it.

Also note that the 'common name' varies according to who/where/etc. and to get a proper id you should use the latin name.

Ed

 

[wlaurent]

Clavelina Robusta

Mangrove Tunicates

Not sure - very difficult to ID as there are so many variations