Marine Curio

DIVE Magazine's long-running Miscellany of Marine Curios - the weirdest and most wonderful critters that call the oceans home
a tongue-eating louse pictured inside an anemone fish

Marine Curios #3 – Cymothoa exigua or tongue-eating louse

ByDIVE ContributorsDec 4, 2023
One reason to be grateful you're not a fish - the spine-chilling isopod Cymothoa exigua, or tongue-eating louse
Marine Curios #2 – Nereis sandersi, a deep ocean worm

Marine Curios #2 – Nereis sandersi, a deep ocean worm

ByDIVE ContributorsNov 25, 2023
Lurking deep within the bowels of the earth - quite literally - is Nereis sandersi - a deep ocean polychaete worm
a juvenile Periphylla periphylla or crown jellyfish

Marine Curios #1 – Periphylla periphylla, or helmet jellyfish

ByMark 'Crowley' RussellNov 17, 2023
From DIVE's Miscellany of Marine Curios - Periphylla periphylla - the helmet jellyfish - a vertical migrator with a very rare reproductive
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