Scientific name: Kathetostoma laeve
Location: Portsea, Victoria, Australia
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Comments: The head of a Stargazer buried in sand, lying in wait for prey.

Scientific name: Pentagonaster duebeni
Location: Edithburgh, South Australia
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Comments: This seastar is feeding on the brightly colored sponges.

Scientific name: Phycodurus eques
Location: Edithburgh, South Australia
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Comments: This distinctive fish, which is endemic to southern Australia, is camouflaged to resemble a drifting piece of seaweed.

Scientific name: Tambja verconis
Location: Point Turton, South Australia
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Comments: The bright colors of this nudibranch warn potential predators it is not edible, as it contains toxic chemicals it has metabolized from the bryozoan, Bugula dentata, it is feeding on.

Location: Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
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Comments: A mixture of colonial and compound ascidians, with some sponges and red algae, forming a typical community in low light conditions on a tropical Indo-Pacific coral reef.

Scientific name: Clavelina moluccensis
Location: Edithburgh, South Australia
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Comments: A colony of Blue Colonial Ascidians being overgrown by a colony of Compound Ascidians, Botrylloides leachii.

Scientific name: Pagea confoederata
Location: Fortescue Bay, Tasmania, Australia
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Comments: A salp (solitary form), a type of pelagic tunicate and part of the oceanic plankton.

Scientific name: Corynactis sp
Location: Waterfall Bay, Tasmania, Australia
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Comments: Closely related to stony corals, these corallimorph anemones are extremely variable in color, and form colonies of a single color form by cloning.

Scientific name: Brachionichthys politus
Location: Tasmania, Australia
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Comments: This rare species is known only from southeastern Tasmania, Australia. It belongs to the brachionichthyidae, a family of small fishes related to frogfish and andemic to southern Australia.