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Enteropneusta slurp. I have a theory that they launch & drift. 4 times I've seen them drifting just 4cm above the sediment. We never see tracks going to & from the spirals they leave behind. How a fragile booger manages that, idk?
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Benthodytes, sponge w/ ophiuroid, ophiuroid, squat lobster, shrimp, Elpidiidae
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Hermit crab wearing scaphopod shell 🦀
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Larvacean exiting snot house
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I captured a Coryphellina rubrolineata Nudibranch on volcanic sediment on the ocean floor just offshore of Sangeang Volcano in Indonesia.

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Maybe Periphyllopsis
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I have absolutely no idea what this is. It almost gives Ctenophore but the inner structure and movement confuses me. @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
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