Disgusting looking transparent clam-like... anemone?

[shlap]

I just discovered this guy. It's only really noticable with a flashlight at night. It behaves like a clam, opening and shutting it's "mouth" and there's a red/brown rock in the middle of it like a perl in a clam. When I shine a light on it, it looks pink and translucent. If I tap on the glass it darts back inside it's hole. What is it!?

 

[t316]

Is it just me, or why isn't the pic showing up

 

[shlap]

Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/3177930
Is it just me, or why isn't the pic showing up %%
Fixed : it was a web host setting that needed to be changed.

 

[spanko]

What in the world???
ALIENS!!!!!!

 

[cranberry]

Ya, in that pic it looks super odd... but you are right. It's a bivalve mollusk. Scallop maybe? Reminds me of a flame. But there is a kazillion different types of bivalves... it would be difficult to pin it down with the info we have.
But whatever it is, it's a cool filter feeding hitchhiker to add to your biodiversity.

 

[gregzbobo]

its a marine species of Sarlac, reef safe, but terrestrial relatives are known to consume

the occasional Mandolorian bounty hunter clone.