Tiny anemones attached to brown shallow water algae wait for their prey in murky waters of Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. They cannot move so they wait for water to move and bring tiny critters to the reach of their deadly tentacles. In spite of not using a lipstick the anemone’s mouth is pink. Keywords: […]
A lot of interesting phenomenons hide under the canopy of kelp forest, in this case a road-shaped clean and flat strip of the bottom. Keywords: kelp forest “kelp forest” canopy under road bottom Ecklonia radiata “Ecklonia radiata” “like road” road-like rad-shaped underwater undersea sponge orange brown algae vegetation temperate water Pacific ocean
Large comb sea star Astropecten polyacanthus on silty bottom of Mahurangi Harbour where it is quite abundant. It spends a lot of time burrowed in sand so it’s seldom clean of it. The spines along its arms reminding of a comb give the sea star its name. Keywords: “sea star” starfish comb “comb sea star” […]
I wrote previously kelp forests of southern Pacific have their smiling face. It is Eastern Kelpfish Chironemus marmoratus. It usually hides among kelp fronds or “sits” on shaded rocks covered with algae where it is well camouflaged. What an unusual sight when it cruises in open water with kelp in the background. Keywords: fish kelpfish “kelp […]
White-tentacled anemones Actinothoe albocincta attached to a small rock from below in a place where there is a space between the rock and sand. They are protected from above and can catch their prey in the water flowing around. Keywords: anemone anemones white tentacle tentacles white-tentacled column Actinothoe albocincta “Actinothoe albocincta” invertebrate underwater undersea temperate Pacific […]
A good crop of orange golfball sponges (Tethya …) on a rock near Ti Point Wharf, in Whangateau Harbour. Keywords: sponge sponges golfball orange “golfball sponge” “golfball sponges” underwater undersea Tethya algae vegetation sea weed weeds temperate Pacific ocean filter feeder “filter feeder” feeding “filter feeding” feeders “filter feeders” “Ti Point” wharf “Ti Point Wharf” […]