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Tidal creek

5m - night dive

Approximate depth 585m. Primarily compacted mud with some fine gravel and small rocks.
Found in sediment sample collected by B.M.

Pwela south dive site

TIde pooling, private beach

strange, some of these plumose are half orange and half white

tentacles all fell off in transit
caught at depth with permit
photographed in the lab

Humpy N - C

Not at all sure about this one!

wrong skeleton color, skeleton thickness, polyp color, branching pattern, etc etc etc for any of our local gorgonians - would love some help on this one

200ft deep

220ft deep

Autor: Javier Guallart
Profundidad: 57.5 metros
Captura: Trasmallo en la Roca dels Feliu

Seen in the waters round Murchison Island ...
52.5980663983478, -131.45192598582193

tentacles fell off in transit
captured at depth with permit
photographed in the lab

Max depth 20 feet. Diving in kelp forest / shallow rocky reef.

eggs?

very tentative ID

Outside of reef at Mana Is. 7-20m.

see also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157492223

see also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144795684

Very small, maybe 15mm.

Bommie outside reef Matuku. The island was hit hard by Cyclone Harold in 2020 with a 6m "tsunami" as it passed. Coral was badly damaged though regrowing in places.
5-28m.

Dock