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Radioheed
09/25/2006, 11:28 AM
Hitckhiker of the hour from my new LR. I know it's not the best ID shot, I can't get a shot from the other side.

Is this a snail without a shell? Nudi?

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/686/pdr0009yv5.jpg

dp122098
09/25/2006, 11:31 AM
Not sure what you want us to look at. Can't you get any closer to it?

Radioheed
09/25/2006, 11:40 AM
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9360/pdr00091ik4.jpg

dp122098
09/25/2006, 11:50 AM
Wow... I have nerver seen anything like that... but if I had to take a guess from what it looks like, I would say a sunge. Did it grow there or does this thing move around?

Radioheed
09/25/2006, 11:53 AM
it moves, but it seems to want to keep down in the sand

rigleautomotive
09/25/2006, 11:53 AM
limpet or nudibranch

Radioheed
09/25/2006, 12:01 PM
NICE!

I think it's a limpet! Thanks!

Wait...What the heck is a limpet?

(great another thing to research)

rigleautomotive
09/25/2006, 12:17 PM
most are algae eating slugs some are carnavores and eat coral

Paintbug
09/25/2006, 02:30 PM
it could be a limpet, but it looks like a Stomatella varia
http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/stomatella_varia.htm
any chance to get a pic of the top?

dp122098: what is a sunge??