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Oceanapia sagittaria
Also known as Pink Puffball Sponge, Burrowing Sponge, Red Burrowing Sponge, Maiden's Fan and Red Maiden Fan Sponge. They feed on plankton and can grow to a length of about 10cm.
Found on shallow coral and rocky reefs with the stalk buried in the substrate and the cap about the size of a golf ball above is used for filtering food. This ball can also fall off, roll around the seabed, reattach or reform into another sponge. Widespread in the Western Central Pacific.
A violet-hued globe that looks like it's made of gossamer, attached to a slender tube. The base seems to be rooted in the sand. Spotted this curious-looking marine life at a depth of about 30 feet, at a dive site called Limao Reef, off the coast of Samal Island, Philippines.
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Beautiful! Nice colour!
Your welcome blogie.. very amazing creature!
Amazing color, I love it, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the suggestion, Rhex, but it's something else. Thanks to WhatsThatFish.com who ID'd it for me!
i think it's a kind of tube worm..
@Gerardo - I don't know. I showed it to some of my friends and they couldn't identify it either.
@Leuba - I'd say it was about 2-3cm in diameter. Partially visible creature? Do you mean the one above it? That's a type of corallimorph, if I'm not mistaken.
@Nopayahnah - Thanks very much!
Your photos are beautiful and this is an interesting form of sealife!
very strange - would like to know what it is. How big were the jelly globes Blogie and what is that creature partially visible ?? - could it be an egg case of some sort ?
Very interesting Blogie do you have a local name for this organism?