Marine life  /  Other invertebrates
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Other invertebrates

What is left when every other group has taken what belongs to it: a comb jelly that crawls and a sea spider. Two animals, two phyla, nothing in common.

Species
2
Depth
3–30 m
Rarity
4 stars of 5, two or three a season
Night only
1
Can hurt a diver
None
Destinations
4

Both are found by looking at something else. Coeloplana is a comb jelly that lost the habit of swimming and lies flat on a soft coral or a sea star, visible mainly as two tentacles trailing off the host. The sea spiders are millimetres across and are on hydroids and soft coral, feeding on the polyps.

2 species

Photographed first, then commonest

2 written up, none photographed yet

Every one has a page. They are shown as a list rather than as pictures because nothing has been photographed or logged for them yet, and a species with nothing behind it should not sit in front of one that has.

Where they are recorded

How many of the 2 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 2.

Lembeh Strait 2 Anilao 2 Dauin & Dumaguete 1 Bali 1

The other groups

Anemonefish 11 Angelfish 25 Batfish 3 Blennies 26 Butterflyfish 35 Cardinalfish 13 Damselfish 32 Dottybacks 5 Dragonets 5 Eels & garden eels 18 Flatfish 8 Frogfish & anglers 26 Goatfish 8 Gobies & dartfish 29 Groupers & anthias 42 Hawkfish 5 Jacks & open-water fish 29 Jawfish 4 Lizardfish & flatheads 10 Morays 26 Morwongs & trumpeters 4 Parrotfish 16 Pufferfish & boxfish 23 Rabbitfish 5 Scorpionfish & lionfish 47 Seahorses & pipefish 53 Shrimpgobies 17 Snappers, breams & sweetlips 39 Squirrelfish & soldierfish 9 Surgeonfish & unicornfish 26 Triggerfish & filefish 25 Trumpetfish & cornetfish 4 Wrasses 56 Other fish 46 Sharks & rays 63 Turtles, sea snakes & crocodiles 11 Marine mammals & birds 10 Cephalopods 36 Nudibranchs & sea slugs 137 Sea snails & shells 26 Shrimps 38 Mantis shrimps 5 Crabs 45 Hermit crabs 10 Lobsters & squat lobsters 13 Isopods & parasitic crustaceans 5 Amphipods 2 Sea stars 18 Brittle stars & basket stars 7 Feather stars 2 Sea urchins 23 Sea cucumbers 12 Worms 11 Flatworms 3 Jellyfish & stinging drifters 10 Anemones & zoanthids 12 Corals & sponges 29 Sea squirts 4 Blackwater & plankton 52

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