Hello!
The attached pictures show siphonophores photographed between September and October in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Isalnds by SCUBA divers near the surface. Unfortunaltey, no size measurements have been taken at the time.
Does anybody know the species name?
Your help is much appreciated.
Florian
Hello, i am not familiar with the marine biodiversity the area it has.
But i strongly suggest uploading your observations to inaturalist.org for identification which in that way it won't help only you but other researchers and biologists.
By the size of the nectophore compared to the cormidial groups could be a Forskalia sp. or an Algama sp., perhaps a juv Forskalia edwardsi but I'm really unsure.
Sort of looks like Nanomia bijuga, which I think could be found in that area.
The first two look like Forskalia and the others a Diphyid calycophoran
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