Help! Need Identification...

Can you all help me out on what this little guy is?

The fish is about 2" in length and I took its picture while in Bonaire.

Peppermint goby. Coryphopterus lipernes. 2 inches sounds like a massive one. Usually max of an inch.

Does anyone know what this is???? It was wrapped around a sea whip & seemed to have devoured that part away. I am not sure if it's an anemone or not but it had all those tentacles.....

Here's another view & it's so, so weird.....

And yet another on another whip some other trip.....

?????? :?:

Hi --

It's appears to be a Nemanthus anemone with all but a few white tentacles withdrawn into its mouth. Both the Gosliner, Behrens & Williams and Colin & Arneson guidebooks have pictures of Nemanthus annamensis. This has white, cream, orange, or red markings. On the web you'll find some information at

http://www.edge-of-reef.com/anemoni/ESANem...nnamensisen.htm

The edge-of-reef site says the color markings are brown. Your black-patterned critter might be undescribed or just a color variant. All sources say that it's unknown whether the anemone settles on dead gorgonians or if it settles on & kills live ones.

Cheers, Leslie

Thank you, Leslie! Now that I know what a precious resource this website is, I won't hesitate to take more pictures of the weird & indescribable critters that I encounter & post them here. At last, I'm not telling tall stories...!

hey pummkin! glad you're enjoying wetpixel.

in the future, can you add a short description to the subject line of your critter id posts? it helps keep things organized a bit.

thanks,

eric

Yikes! I don't even know what it is hence, no Subject nor ID.....!?!?!?!!?! Ok, I promise I'll be good & think of a nice word to classify all these strange & weird stuff that I find & make sure they catch your attention!!!! But this is not my thread.... :-( I'm just riding on someone else's identity crisis..... :-)

oops! sorry -- you're right. I meant to direct at cmm1970.

any description helps, even something like, "funny small fish on coral"...