Small little critter and the same as the guy I posted a while ago. Seems to have made a habit of hiding in corals! @ISpeakForTheSeas I finally got some better pics 
Amphipod ID?
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While looking, i found this website which has a great collection of photos of marine animals, aswell as pods! https://www.aphotomarine.com/sitemap_photographic_categories.html Or look up A Photo Marine, they are taken by David Fenwick
Well, it's definitely pretty - does the tail curl down and split into a few frills near the bottom of the tail, or is the tail just a solid piece with no frills?Small little critter and the same as the guy I posted a while ago. Seems to have made a habit of hiding in corals! @ISpeakForTheSeas I finally got some better pics
It seems to be curling down a bit in a few of the pics, so I'm leaning toward it being an amphipod over an isopod, but I can't tell if there are any frills by the bottom which would confirm that.
Also, yeah A Photo Marine is a great resource - I use it primarily for algae species, but it's occasionally useful for other, less common critters too.While looking, i found this website which has a great collection of photos of marine animals, aswell as pods! https://www.aphotomarine.com/sitemap_photographic_categories.html Or look up A Photo Marine, they are taken by David Fenwick
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I saw one of these yesterday in some seaweed I pulled from a marinaSmall little critter and the same as the guy I posted a while ago. Seems to have made a habit of hiding in corals! @ISpeakForTheSeas I finally got some better pics
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Can I ask, are you in europe? I think I may have brought him in on some seaweed
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It does curl and jet around, so im 99% sure its a amphipod
I'm not sure about frills,I'll take a closer look when I'm home!
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I'm not but I bet they're also in EuropeCan I ask, are you in europe? I think I may have brought him in on some seaweed
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That guys really close, but i think my guys back is darker. But really similar
Centraloecetes kroyeranus perhaps
No problem - yeah, that confirms it being an amphipod.
Unfortunately, this falls into the category of amphipods I haven't looked into much yet (there are a ton of amphipods out there, and I've barely scratched the surface with learning about them).
An Ischyrocerid species of some kind would be my first guess, but I really don't know.
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Honestly, it would probably be terrifing if you knew all about amphipods aswell as everything else!
I just came from a post you had commented on about blenny breeding, and I'm just so impressed! Thank you for all the info youve given on this site!
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Actually, if you dont mind me asking, is there a specific website that you could reccomend for learning more about any sort of marine stuff? I was looking at the MBIsite but that isnt opening for me. Seeing indentification/research/projects with inverts and fish is just so interesting!
Haha, thank you - I've still got plenty to learn!Honestly, it would probably be terrifing if you knew all about amphipods aswell as everything else!
I just came from a post you had commented on about blenny breeding, and I'm just so impressed! Thank you for all the info youve given on this site!
There are a bunch, but which I would recommend depends on what you want to accomplish - is there anything in particular you're hoping to learn?Actually, if you dont mind me asking, is there a specific website that you could reccomend for learning more about any sort of marine stuff? I was looking at the MBIsite but that isnt opening for me. Seeing indentification/research/projects with inverts and fish is just so interesting!
Yeah, the MBIsite has some great info on it, but it's old now, and I don't know how much longer it'll be operational for (hopefully a long time, but given that it doesn't have info from beyond 2014, I'm not very optimistic about it).
For just general research stuff, Google search (not Google Scholar Search) is your friend as it can help you find links on the following sites (assuming no special academic/research access and that you want to avoid paywalls as much as possible):
-Research Gate
-Academia.edu (you need a free account to read the stuff)
-JSTOR (you need a free account to read the stuff - they've got a lot of older stuff, but I've found some of the older stuff is really good/contains a lot of detail)
These next ones are good (sometimes really good) but more likely (sometimes very likely) to have paywalls or require access to an article through an institution - sometimes you can still get free articles or good info from just the abstract they show on the page, but other times you can't:
-PubMed
-Springer
-Elsevier
-ScienceDirect
-Tandfonline
-BioMedCentral
-Springer
-Frontiers
-Academic.oup
-Nature
-MDPI
-SciELO - Brazil
And this definitely doesn't cover every site out there - these are just some of the more common ones that pop up for me.
For info on fish/inverts (profiles on each), the list below is pretty good (again, definitely not complete - a notable one I know is missing is Inverts.WallaWalla.edu):
And some more in the link below:
Looking for a list of Marine fish
Does anyone know a good website or place that has a really nice selection of fish or just information about fish. I seem to constantly find new fish and never know the names. LiveAquaria has a okay selection but they are still missing some fish. Just looking for info with pictures and names...
www.reef2reef.com
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Thats incredible! Thank you so much!
I heard about it when i was watching Kathy Leahys talk from 2019 Macna (really good video!)
This is a really good list! Its great to have a starting point, I usually use the wrong keywords and end up getting random vague articles
Its fun to just scroll and see if you can find anything weird!
Not really, I'll read practically anything! I like knowing as much as I can, especially the more obscure parts
Yeah, I think it might be starting to shut down
I heard about it when i was watching Kathy Leahys talk from 2019 Macna (really good video!)You assumed right
This is a really good list! Its great to have a starting point, I usually use the wrong keywords and end up getting random vague articlesThats brilliant! I love going through profiles
Its fun to just scroll and see if you can find anything weird!
Haha, yeah figuring out what to search takes some experimenting and practice. Sometimes those vague articles end up being useful in the future though (ironically, there are a few that I can't find anymore that I wish I could; I don't use the same search terms as I used to, though, so I can't).You assumed right
Thats brilliant! I love going through profiles
It is fun - as mentioned, though, none of the sites are perfect, and once you start digging deep enough often enough you'll start coming across occasional issues like incorrect info or a misidentification (this is particularly true with the more hobbyist oriented sites like LiveAquaria, SaltCorner, and Reeflex - the first two have good hobby info, but may not be accurate scientifically; Reeflex is good for ID's with only occasional exceptions, but the info presented is often inaccurate, vague, or incomplete).
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