Saltwater snail

Seaflower I

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length: 5 cm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living underwater but can stay out of the water for almost half of a day

Usually like to stay on a place

when encounter disturb, it will close the tenacle

strong body and quick recovery from disturb


Seaflower II

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length: 3 cm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living underwater but can stay out of the water for almost half of a day

Usually like to stay on a place

when encounter disturb, it will close the tenacle

strong body and will not quick recovery from disturb


unknown specie

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length: 10 cm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living under water

fixed on a place

flexible body

when encounter disturb, it will flow out water

can grow new small body

when grow up have a pipe of the head to filter water microorganism for food


seaflower III

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size: 10 cm

From: shore's rocky area

From expo sample

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living under water

fixed on a place

soft and flexible body

mouth on the center

have many tentacle

when encounter disturb, it will close the tentacles and look like a ball

can grow new small body

when grow up have a pipe of the head to filter water microorganism for food

eat microorganism and small creatures


Echinus

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length: 10 cm

From expo sample

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living under water

surrounded by stings

when disturb, can inject red poison liquid

Mouth at the bottom


mouth open

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mouth close

have many soft legs on the bottom to improve moving ability

the legs have a osculum head, it is different from the stings on the right-hand side

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unknown creatures

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size: 5 mm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living under the sand

not active

have something look like eyes

start petting time: 2006/7/24


unknown creature shell found in sand

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size: 2 mm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living under the sand

have a big mouth

tooth is sharp

start petting time: 2006/7/28


unknown creature found in water


size: 4 mm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures

characteristic

should living on the sand or rock

white colour

have many stem

look like a plant but is a creature


unknown creature found in water


size: 5 mm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water and other creatures

characteristic

should living on the sand or rock

yellow colour

have a big main stem

look like a plant but is a creature           


unknown creature found in saltwater sand


size: 0.5 mm- 1 mm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the sand

characteristic

living in the sand

orange

have many tentacle

can move to any directions


can jump a little bit


can turn based on a point


unknown creature


size: 1 cm- 1.5 cm

From: shore's rocky area

characteristic

without eyes and hands

can stretch in or out the mouth

soft body

watching it out of water


the video show it stretch out and stretch in the mouth


the video show it can sudden stretch in the mouth quickly


the video show it stretch out the mouth and then its mouth stretch out something in yellow colour

From: shore's rocky area
when it feel danger, it will close its mouth fully and look like a bean

From: shore's rocky area
when mouth fully closed, the mouth exit just remain a little hole

a sample is found in wild

From: shore's rocky area
the picture show it is using the mouth pipe to fix it on the rock


the video show it using the mouth pipe to join in the rock edge

high probability is the bigger samples of it


the mouth pipe head become black colour
the video show it push out the sand from its body then stretch in the body to the rock


when being touched, it totally hide in the hole (the left one),
the right one can not totally hide because it still have more sand in the body than the left one


the video show it stretch out the yellow object from its mouth and the yellow object become longer

From: shore's rocky area
the picture show it fully stretch out the yellow object

From: shore's rocky area
the picture show it yellow object become fat and look like a ball


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area  From: shore's rocky area
size: 1.5 cm- 2 cm  (small)           open exit  (small)

From: shore's rocky area  From: shore's rocky area
size: 7 cm  (big)                          open exit  (big)

From: shore's rocky area

characteristic

look like a long pipe and one exit closed

the open exit is usually on top

soft body

the small one is always lying on sand and the longer one (over 2 cm - 10 cm) is always hide half of its body in sand and vertically join in the sand with the open exit on top

although it is not sticky, it can fix the sand on its surface

the bigger side would fix much more sand on it make and finally surround all the surface and make the pipe from soft to hard

From: shore's rocky area
if take out the sand on the from pipe, it can see the pipe surface become thinner and transparent


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area
size: 1.5 cm- 2 cm

characteristic

have two pipes

the two pipes can be stretch in or stretch out

have a big body

soft body


the video show it stretch in and out the two pipes, also it can see the big soft body in black is following the movement


the video show it can totally stretch the two pipes in the big soft body when it is touched, looked like a stone

2007/8/11  (one month later after finding)

From: shore's rocky area
the picture show it pipe become longer and thicker


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area
size: 1 cm

characteristic

have a pipe

can stretch in or out

growing on the coral hole


the video show it feel danger and stretch in the pipe a little bit, then it encounter a new movement, it immediately stretch in the pipe in the coral hole


unknown creature


size: 1 cm

characteristic

white colour

have two tentacles

can stretch in or out

hiding on somewhere like coral or some object


the video show it hide in somewhere when the tank is being touched


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area
size: 1 cm

characteristic

like an insect

have leg in the front

From: shore's rocky area
have black and white stripe on the back, lower half have
beards

From: shore's rocky area
tail have
many thin beards


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area
size: 3 cm

characteristic

soft body

have holes on the body

stick on the rock

pink colour


unknown creature

From: shore's rocky area
size: 25 cm

特性

soft body

half transparent

flexible

look like a part of the jellyfish, have several branches

From: shore's rocky area
bottom is smooth


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