Today I learnt about few amazing sea creatures which I would like to share with you :

Pink Sea-Through Fantasia

The pink see-through fantasia is a sea cucumber, found about a mile and a half deep in the Celebes Sea in the western Pacific (east of Borneo).

this is so beautiful..it only has one intestine and a mouth..don't have eyes and looks like an alien..

Christmas Tree Worm

Scientists found this strange creature at the Great Barrier Reef's Lizard Island and named it, aptly, the Christmas tree worm. One better might have been "fake plastic Christmas tree worm," but it's still a pretty good name. (Scientists also refer to it as Spirobranchus giganteus). The spiral "branches" are actually the worm's breathing and feeding apparatus. The worm itself lives in a tube, and it can withdraw its tree-like crowns if threatened.

 Marrus Orthocanna

Like a multi-stage rocket, this bizarre microscopic creature, Marrus orthocanna is made up of multiple repeated units, including tentacles and multiple stomachs. Never heard of a physonect siphonophore? That's what this is. It's something like a jellyfish, and is more closely related to the Portugese man o'war. One interesting thing about it: Like ants, a colony made up of many individuals has attributes resembling a single organism.

Armored Snail

There's no other snail in the world armored like the Crysomallon squamiferum, which was found over a hydrothermal vent deep in the Indian Ocean. The multilayered structure of the shell is called "unlike any other known natural or synthetic engineered armor."

Flamingo Tongue Snail

With a name like Flamingo tongue snail, and the flamboyant coloration to match, you might think that this Cyphoma gibbosum has a shell worthy of collecting. Not so. All its color comes from the soft parts of its body, which envelope its shell unless it's threatened. This specimen was photographed feeding on soft corrals near Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

Ceratonotus steiningeri Copepod

Scientists first discovered this tiny copepod, Ceratonotus steiningeri, in 2006, 17,700 feet deep in the Angola Basin, a portion of the south-central Atlantic Ocean. Then they found it again, in the southeastern Atlantic, and then again, 8,000 miles away in the central Pacific. Now, they're trying to figure out how such a tiny thing (half a millimeter long) could be so widespread, and yet have eluded detection for so long. Copepods are tiny crustaceans that form an important part of the marine food web: In other words, a lot of other creatures eat them.

Crossota Norvegica Jellyfish

Crossota norvegica, a jellyfish, collected from the deep Arctic Canada Basin.

Kiwa, God of Shellfish, Crab

This furry-clawed crab appeared so unusual when scientists discovered it 5,000-feet deep on a hydrothermal vent south of Easter Island that they designated it not only a new genus, Kiwa, but a new family, Kiwidae – both named for the mythological Polynesian goddess of shellfish. It's likely blind and may use bacteria in its furry claws to de-toxify its food.

Napolean Wrasse

You can't really beat the description of this creature from the Census of Marine Life: "Exceeding two meters in length, the Napoleon Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) is one of the largest reef fish found in the warm waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. The intricate blue-green design that decorates the face resembles New Zealand Maori war paint, which is the root of its alternative name, the Maori Wrasse. The designs are also unique to each individual, much like fingerprints. A protogynous hermaphrodite, this wrasse can change its sex from female to male."

Venus Flytrap Anemone

This Venus flytrap anemone of the genus Actinoscyphia was found in the Gulf of Mexico. Related to jellyfish, sea anemones get their name from the flower of the same name.

 Source :thedailygreen.com