new rock dweller discovered need ID

[LovenBama]

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/210685Picture__Va_172__2_.jpg


hope pic works because this creature is bout to drive me crazy tryin to ID it and my first time tryin to post pics in a thread

 

[LovenBama]

in case pic is bad.and I know it is....it's bout the size of your thumb kinda creamy orange colored with 3 large circles on it's back that are black outlined and black dot in the center...it is very beautiful but just need to figure out what it is and if it's a good creature or not

 

[gflat65]

Is it soft or hard? How does it move? Does it resemble a slug or nudi?

 

[wpecoul]

Yes, please give more details on characteristics and movement, etc. It's hard to discern much from the picture.

 

[The0wn4g3]

It looks like one of those small tan clam type things that grow on my rock from the looks of the picture. From the description is sounds like a nudibranch.

 

[gflat65]

What do they call those? Turkey wing clams or bivalves (or something along that line)

 

[The0wn4g3]

I have no idea, I've always just called them "little tan clams" haha

 

[LovenBama]

ok guys I have new pics and hope they help...and Gary it looks kinda like a slug or shelless snail and moves like one too...only comes out in early morning around 6:30am and no lights are on

 

[LovenBama]

sorry everyone first time using photobucket...scroll all the way to the right for the better pic

 

[LovenBama]

one more pic

 

[lorawalters13]

maybe a limpet???

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Is its body segmented?

Do you think it is soft bodied? If so, does it have any antenna?

 

[LovenBama]

soft body I'm sure because this morning it seem to be flatten out and not fat and round as it appeared yesterday morning and has no antenna or feet that I can tell

 

[wpecoul]

+1 for limpet. I used to have one that looked/acted similar to this. If you could find it in the daytime, it just looked like a nondescript shell. At night, its body would come out and over the shell (like a cowrie) and it would cruise around.

 

[LovenBama]

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html

sorry guys it has been ID and it's a polyplacophoran chiton and it's of no harm you can see it in the link above under the snail category

 

[LovenBama]

OMG!! I have two living in the same rock...found the second one shortly after the lights went out tonight right beside the first one and it's so cool...we've named them Herbert and Sherbert because the orange color they have reminds my daughter of orange sherbert icecream and she keeps wanting me to get one out so she can photograph it up-close but I'm thinking that's not gonna happen because they don't seem to like the light very much when we try to take nightshots and the camera flashes and I know the biggest one is around 5-6 inches in lenght it lives in "fraggle rock" which has numberous nukes and crannies that it travels trough so I wouldn't want to hurt it trying to get it out of a hole..maybe one night or early morning one of them will be completely out on the rock so that maybe I can catch it

 

[doorlady]

maybe Herbert & Sherbert would like to float in Leah's punch at her weeding reception

 

[LovenBama]

be nice Big Girl.....or she won"t let ya cook for the wedding....LOL
she'll think you put something in the food