{"id":2382,"date":"2013-04-25T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:18:11","slug":"pic-of-the-day-free-swimming-flatworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the Day &#8211; Free Swimming Flatworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2383\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2383\" data-attachment-id=\"2383\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2383\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,399\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1236998536&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9awoosh.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Awoosh.com Images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2383\" title=\"Awoosh.com Images\" alt=\"Awoosh.com Images\" src=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018.jpg 600w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/JG-Ambon-4-dives-018-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pseudobiceros Flatworm<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, we were looking more to the big picture, with imagery from <a title=\"Pic of the Day \u2013 Stingray City\" href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2364\" target=\"_blank\">Stingray City<\/a> in Grand Cayman. Today&#8217;s pic is back to something quite small, and I think a bit unusual &#8211; a free swimming flatworm, that I captured in Ambon Harbour in Indonesia &#8211; home of some pretty bodacious muck diving.<\/p>\n<p>Flatworms, which are cousins of nudibranchs, are cool little critters, and there seems to be a lot of them. This one is (I think) some sort of <em>Pseudobiceros<\/em>. A bit hard to tell, as these things are usually creeping across the reef when we see them, not curled up like this in swimming contortions. I can&#8217;t find a positive match in my id book.<\/p>\n<p>This one had launched itself and was swimming up off the reef, in the water column. It was spotted during a shore night dive, and I will admit to quite a bit of luck in actually getting it in focus &#8211; a devilish proposition with a macro lens in manual focus mode in black water.<\/p>\n<p>If I recall correctly, it was about 2 inches long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we were looking more to the big picture, with imagery from Stingray City in Grand Cayman. Today&#8217;s pic is back to something quite small, and I think a bit unusual &#8211; a free swimming flatworm, that I captured in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/?p=2382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,62,13],"tags":[103,133,54,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awoosh.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}