Coeloplana sp.
This is not nudibranch or sea slug
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: Benthic sea gooseberry with fishing tentacles (coloblasts) contracted (the conical wrinkled structures). These tentacles are expanded at night to feed on plankton.
| Location: | Similan Islands, Thailand |
| Photographer: | Indra Swari |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 350D › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | November 19, 2007 |
| Viewed: | 358 times |
| Posted: | 9 months ago |
| Updated: | 9 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Class: | Tentaculata |
| Order: | Platyctenida |
| Family: | Platyctenidae |
| Species: | Coeloplana sp. |