Weird and wonderful sea creatures
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Alexander Semenov is a Russian marine scientist and photographer.
The above is a moon jelly from the Red Sea. A couple more...


...and a relative, a comb jelly.

These look like jellyfish, but they're not even related. They're salps.

A nail-armed sea star...

...and a blue-spotted ribbontail ray.

From the Sea of Japan:
Starfish...

...a couple of crabs...

(this one's a baby red king crab hanging out on a sponge)

...a clinging jellyfish...

...and a giant Pacific octopus. It's the largest octopus in the world.

From the White Sea, off Russia's northwestern coast:
This is a golf tee medusa, a jellyfish. The little pink-yellow things inside are parasitic amphipods.

More amphipods: a "Red Bull," feeding on bryozoa...

...a hedgehog amphipod...

...a skeleton shrimp (which isn't actually a shrimp)...


...and another parasite, a big-eyed amphipod, inside its jellyfish host.

These amphipods may look a little scary, but none is more than an inch long.
Here's a starfish arm...

...a wolf-fish...

...a northern lacuna sea snail...

...and a polychaete worm.

"Sea spiders" aren't actually spiders; they're called pycnogonids. The males look after the eggs and young. Here's one with his eggs...

...and another with babies hatched out.

A couple of swimming mollusks: a sea butterfly...

...and a sea angel.

More from the jellyfish group: an oaten pipes hydroid...

...a stalked jelly...

...and two more comb jellies.


For yet more pictures, and more about Semenov and his work, visit his website.
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