What is this creature?

[mbader71]

I have posted the same thread in the videography.

but now I think that this is the right place for this question.

I have taken this video in the Arabian Gulf:

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Does anyone know what is this creature called?? and is it an animal or a plant?

Remember you need Divx codec to view this.

 

[mbader71]

Please move this thread to Name the Critter :bonk::bonk::bonk:

 

[mbader71]

no replies

that is really strange???!!!


Any how here are some pictures of that creature, but only in the video you will appreciate the weirdness of that creature, it is moving like a spider:

Please I need a reply

 

[Kupu]

That is a feather star. I did not have the plugin needed to view the video link. Thanks for adding the pictures.

 

[300bar]

Please move this thread to Name the Critter :bonk::bonk::bonk:

As you requested.

BTW sending a PM or reporting the post will work faster.

 

[mbader71]

That is a feather star. I did not have the plugin needed to view the video link. Thanks for adding the pictures.

Thank you very much

 

[Gen San Chris]

Yup, I agree with Kupu, a swimming Feather Star or Crionoid!

 

[Deefstes]

It's a pretty cool video!

 

[Gen San Chris]

The creature in the video clip is a Nudibranch or Sea Slug! I am not sure of the exact type but thats what it is! Very common in the tropics!

 

[Deefstes]

Huh? I'm confused now. When I first looked at the video clip it was this feather star swimming. Now when I looked at it again it's a Chromodorid nudibranch. Looks like something along the lines of Chromodoris annulata or Risbecia pulchella but I'm no expert when it gets to nudibranch id. What happened to the feather star video clip?