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Mingo Cay
Found amongst some seaweed growing in the high intertidal zone
Sifted from a partially filled gallon zip-lock bag of shelly sand and sorted under a binocular scope. Over 60 species of marine mollusks were identified.
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Heterobranchia
Key morphology: hairy looking, no external shell
Fun Fact: long planktonic larval period
very cool sighting! not the usual species of sea hare we see in bda (spotted seahare). he was probably about as big as my hand, found in a shallow tide pool at hungry bay with the go sea group
Orbicella corals (bottom right)