Better than this it probably won't get.
Here at Lanzarote doing a night dive with Arturo Telle Thiemann.
I have wanted to see this species for a long time.
A species that was discovered by Arturo Telle in 2000 and named after him is the Gnathophylleptum tellei.
The shrimp is very shy and rare.
It goes out to eat starfish and then hides for a long period until the next meal.
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Well hello there. 😶 This seahare (Stylocheilus polyomma) species can normally be found in night dives in between the algae beds. Certain periods we can find many of them and sometimes we don't find them for a long time.
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This tiny nudibranch (Stiliger llerae) we can find in shallow waters. It feeds and reproduces on the seaweed species Codium afhaerens. 🐌 It is a species at the moment only found on the Canary Islands and Savage Islands.
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Nudibranchs, what to say. 🐌 I think it is by far one of my favorite critters to search for underwater. They can be colorful, well camouflaged, alien-shaped, have strange abilities and much more. You have got to love them. On the photo you can see the Flabellina affinis.
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Did you know we have Sea Spiders underwater? 🕷
They are not true spiders, not even arachnids.
But their traditional classification as chelicerates would place them closer to true spiders than to other well-known arthropod groups.
There are over 1.300 known species.
They have leg spans ranging from 1 mm to over 70 cm.
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Can you guess from which critter this is? 🦖
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We worry about a lot of things.
In the ocean things are sometimes a bit more easy.
Eat or get eaten....
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The seaslug species Placida cremoniana can grow up to a size of 10mm. 🐌 The species normally lives in shallow waters. Yet they don't know very well what they eat. They are found in between different species of algae.
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I only found this beauty one time here. The nudibranch species is Amphorina farrani. 🐌 Its found from cold Norway all the way south to here in the Canary Islands. The species color is very variable.
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It is fun to see the same species that I saw in the Netherlands as well here at Lanzarote. 🐌 The Winged Thecacera (Thecacera pennigera) can reach a size of 30mm in length. It can be found in many temperate climates around the world.
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The Sargassum Shrimp (Latreutes fucorum) is a cryptic species that you can find in seagrass, algae, floating objects, etc. 🦐
They can change their color to their environment, which can make it hard to find them. They can grow up to around 3cm in length.
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When you like scuba diving but also Star Wars.
Sith lord. Darth Moray.
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Photographing cephalopods at night can be interesting with red light. 🐙 Like us their pupils open up at night to catch more light to find potential prey. 👁 On the photo you can see the Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). 🦑
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For me, Eagle Rays are one of the most elegant rays in the ocean. I think for me it is the way they swim.
In the Canary Islands we have what you can see in the photo, the Common Eagle Ray (Myliobatis aquila) and the Bull Ray or Duckbill Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus). 🦅
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At Lanzarote it is common to find rays and sharks while scuba diving. One of the easy rays to find is called the Common Stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca).
There are two species that look very similar.
The other is called the Tortunese Stingray (Dasyatis tortonesei).
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