Play Bit-o-Critter Round 23

OK folks, double header this time, and you can only guess at one of them, so make your choice carefully...

23a - general group will do

23b - full scientific name if you please

Comments

[Miriam]

23a: pycnogonid?

[juliebug]

Is 23a a bryozoan? That is my guess.

[Al Dove]

Miriam got it in one on 23a, a pycnogonid sea spider. That leaves 23b...

[Al Dove]

Hey Miriam, can you tell us more about pycnogonids? I know next to nothing except their name and that my wife freaks out whenever she sees one on screen.

[Aki]

wrasse of some kind? or trigger?

[Al Dove]

Hey Aki,

Yes, it is a wrasse. Now drill down a little. There's enough there for a full name.

[Hannah]

I recognized the second one as a wrasse solely from playing the computer game "Odell Down Under" as a kid. Did anyone else play that? It was the most fun, I wonder what happened to it. I've got the jingle stuck in my head now...

[Al Dove]

Ha! Never heard of it, but I just looked it up and it sounds like something I would have loved. I think I was too busy playing on the ACTUAL GBR :-) Kidding! I'm not really that obnoxious. I was actually playing Starcon2...

[Heather D]

Cheilinus fasciatus?

[Al Dove]

Not all wrasses are tropical :-)

[Will Edwards]

Is 23b Ophthalmolepis lineolatus?

[Al Dove]

Tada! Yes, Will, its what we Aussies call a maori wrasse, Ophthalmolepis lineolatus, not to be confused with the humphead moari wrasse, or Napoleon wrasse Cheilinus undulatus.