Thanks for all the interest in the special #veliger I posted a few days ago. Because of all the curiosity, here’s a few more of the interesting veligers from 2 weeks ago off Bali’s NE coast. Veliger is the term for an early life stage of #marine #snail - before it settles onto the seafloor.

The largest and most beautiful #veliger I’ve ever seen!

Shot last week off Bali, far offshore, on scuba, at night, out over the deep abyss.

The most beautiful #snail ever to exist!
Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles

#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug

Some kind of #freshwater #veliger #microscopy collected in #plankton sample. Size approx 0,18 mm. #mollusk

Ceramics plate in hues of blue with different organisms as the pattern.

New platter with all kinds of inverts! #sciart #ceramics #handbuilding #pottery #larvae #annelids #seaurchin #octopus #embryo #cnidarians #nematostella #veliger #snail #ascidians #nudibranchs

A strikingly yellow veliger in yesterday’s plankton trawl off Pease Bay - presumably bioluminescent. Not sure if this larval snail is identifiable to species but it was pretty stunning to look at #plankton #veliger #bioluminescence #gastropods

Microcystis and Dolichospermum colonies

Sample jar

Plankton net

Microcystis colonies underwater.

Went out fishing for #plankton yesterday. Main catch: #cyanobacteria #diatoms #copepods #cladocera #dreissena #veliger
#citizenscience #freshwater

One of the most beautiful baby snails I’ve come across. Many gastropods spend time in a life stage knows as the veliger stage, wherein they drift through the open ocean, filtering microscopic prey & phytoplankton.
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#veliger #gastropod #marinesnail #mollusc #blackwater