Okinawa Marine Animals

Snapshots, Photographs and video of some of the critters around Okinawa.

Special Credit to Gary Hagland, Robert Peevy and Ken Bare.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Okinawa
• Marine
• Animals
• Diving
• Hagland
• Bare
• Peevy

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Cnidaria

Soft corals; Sea Whip; Hard Coral; Sea fan (Gorgonian); Sea fan at 160 fsw; Soft coral; Hard coral, sleeping; Same coral, feeding; Soft coral; Sea fan (big); Sea fan (with bryozoan colony); Hard corals near Maeda; Close up of sea fan; Sea anemone; Sea anemone; Sea anemone; Leather coral (soft); Table top coral (hard coral with chrinoid at base); Fluted clam (giant clam) surrounded by small fire coral...

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Cnidaria, continued...

Jelly fish (moon jelly); Moon jelly swimming; Moon jelly; Box jelly fish (dangerous); Hard coral; Hard coral reef; Hard coral; Hard coral reef; Wall, with sea fan; Soft corals; Corals, sea squirts

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Bryozoa

Pink stuff is a bryozoan colony- large colonies form lace like patterns

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Annelida

Feather duster tube work in coral; Tube worm; Purple feather duster; Christmas tree worm; Christmas tree worm

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Mollussca

Nudibranchs; Nudibranch (spanish dancer); Egg pod (probably from spanish dancer); Sea rose (egg pods); Nudibranch; Nudibranch; Flat worm; Fluted clam

Fluted clam (giant clam); Geography cone (dangerous); Geography cone; Olive shell, looks like a cone shell; Spider conch shells; Spider conch; Egg cowrie (black) in leather coral; Triton's trumpet feeding on a starfish; Tritons trumpet; Octopus (upset); Blue Ringed Octopus (dangerous); Cuddle fish; Young cuddle fish; Scallop

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Echinodermata

Chinese sea urchin (painful); Pencil urchin; Pillow star; Starfish; Crown of thorns

Crown of thorns; Crown of thorns; Crown of thorns that ate coral; Chrinoid near soft coral; Chrinoid; Red chrinoid; Crhinoid on sea fan; Red chrinoid; Close up of chrinoid

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Chordata

Sea squirts; Sea squirts; Sea squirts; Puffer fish, under table top coral; Porcupine fish; Porcupine fish, held by diver; Porcupine fish; Flounder; Trumpet fish; Turtle; Lion fish; Lion fish; Black Lion fish; Lion fish; Stone fish; Banded Sea snake; Banded Sea snake ...

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Chordata continued...

Sea snake (resting); Moray eel (yellow); Eel with cleaner wrasse; Moray eel

White tip reef shark; Two white tip reef sharks; Divers hovering; Clown fish in anemone; Clown fish; Clown fish in anemone; Lion fish; Spade fish (bat fish)

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Arthropods:

Box crab

Hermit crab

Shrimp

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First aid for things that that poke you:

Remove the 'sticker'. Treat for infection. Soak in hot water.

First aid for things that sting you:

First aid is simple. Remove the stinging cells (tentacle, coral). Neutralize with vinegar or meat tenderizer.