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Bodiless Sea Spider
Pycnogonids seem to have no bodies: often, important organs are in their legs.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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A rude gesture from an interrupted cuttlefish. #cephalopods #uwphoto #scuba #anilao 🦑 www.kelpscape.com/post/digger-...
Digger Cuttlefish
This cuttlefish was digging in the sand when I swam up. Cuttlefish are cephalopods, like octopi and squids. They are quite intelligent and curious. They dig burrows to conceal themselves from predator...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Crinoid Shrimp
Crinoids often have resident shrimp; maybe they always do, because the shrimp are usually hard to find: they are well-camouflaged and like to hide.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Whip coral goby. #scuba #underwaterphoto #goby #Bryaninops #anilao www.kelpscape.com/post/whip-co...
Whip-Coral Gobies
Whip-coral gobies usually live in male-female pairs
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November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Vacant Greenhouse: Phyllodesmium opalescens
Is this nudibranch transparent because it wants to be invisible--or is it just easier not to add pigment? (I understand that the second is why cars are a little less expensive if they are white -- so ...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Local Flâneur: Xeno Crab
Xeno crabs spend their lives strolling along a particular wire coral, like colorfully dressed flâneurs. Like many of his species, this individual has extended his red-and-white camoflage by attaching ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hello Stranger! #scuba #underwater-photo #crystalblueresort #anilao #cephalopod #octopus 🦑 www.kelpscape.com/post/greetin...
Greetings! from an Octopus at the Door of His Home
This octopus made his home in a handy tin can, on the sandy bottom near Anilao Pier. He had a shell just outside, a toy. Octopi often keep things with interesting textures at the entrances of their bu...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Orange-Networked Nudibranch: Halgerda batangas
The orange networked pattern, orange-tipped papillae, and white margin distinguish them from the other 2 species in the genus Halgerda.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Get Outta My Space!
This is Brock's Urchin Shrimp, Allopontonia brockii. They live on urchins, usually fire urchins; like their distant cousins the Coleman's shrimp. Unlike the Coleman's shrimp I've encountered, this fe...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#anilao #frogfish #crystalblueresort #nauticam #bluewaterphoto 🦑
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Frogfish, Dressed in White
The frilly white decoration and golden crown give the scene a bridal aura.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#scuba #UWphoto #shrimp #anilao 🦑
Whip-Coral Shrimp
his whip-coral shrimp has captured a delicious blob, and rises from its usual position hunkered against the coral to devour it.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Flamboyant cuttlefish, at Anilao. This creature is about the side of a bumble bee. #flamboyantcuttlefish #cuttlefish #scuba #UWphoto #muckdiving 🦑
Flamboyant cuttlefish, crawling along sand bottom.
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Skeleton Shrimp on a Hydroid
This skeleton shrimp reminds me of a Chinese proverb: "A peasant can wait a long time on the side of a hill with his mouth open, waiting for a roast duck to fly in."
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August 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Chromodoris magnfica
This nudibranch is veering sharply to its left, but at a snail's pace.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Harlequin Swimming Crab, Lissocarcinus laevis
This Harlequin Swimming shrimp looks like a boxer, staring me down.
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August 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Bus Stop Goniobranchus
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August 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Life on a Kelp Blade
If you examine the kelp blade close-up, the white spots form intricate networks that look like alien cities.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Black-and-Yellow Rockfish
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August 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Kelp Forest Images
I'm posting archival images from the kelp forest at https://www.kelpscape.com/portfolio-collections/my-portfolio I haven't previously shared the above image, so far as I know. It is from Sutil Island,...
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August 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Cymolutes torquatus: Finescale Razorfish
This Finescale Razorfish was one of the first creatures I spotted at Anilao. I was setting up my camera when he wandered along. I suppose he was curious about the creature who had dropped into his nei...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Emperor Shrimp Riding a Sea Cucumber
Emperor Shrimp spend most of their lives riding on sea cucumbers, or other mounts including nudibranchs. These provide them with transportation and, presumably, access to feeding grounds. A friendly r...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A Bottle of Yellow Gobies
Yellow Pygmy Gobies often make their homes in bottles. For the gobies, wine bottles are spacious, secure, with a well-sized entry. Yellow gobies (Lubricogobius exiguus) often (or maybe always) live in...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Tiny Lionfish
I spotted this tiny lionfish on the sand, near Anilao Pier. The fish was quite patient and allowed me to approach. Lionfish are useful predators in the Indo-Pacific, but have escaped from aquariums in...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Looking East toward Prescott, AZ and Mingus Mountain and the Bradshaws. From near Thumb Butte. #prescottaz #bradshawmts #sunrise #hometown #townlights
March 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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2 cats on a water wheel in Cordoba. The caliphs built the wheel to irrigate their palace. Queen Isabella found the sound irritating and had it removed. This is a modern reconstruction, clearly a cat tree. A 3rd cat is out of the image to the left. @bskyofcats.bsky.social
Two cats rest in the sun, on the paddles of a water wheel in the Guadalquivir river in Cordoba, Spain. The caliphs built the wheel, and associated buildings, to provide water for fountains and gardens in their palace nearby. Queen Isabella found the sound irritating and had it removed after the reconquista. It became a symbol of the city nonetheless, and was reconstructed (in non-operating form) in the present day.
March 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM