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写真家峯水亮がプロデュースする、Black Water Dive^®のオフィシャルサイトです。（たまにブルーウォーターの写真も掲載します）潮や時間・場所をよみながら、高演色の水中ライトを夜の海に仕掛けて潜ります。見られる生物は日中のダイビングや普通のナイトダイビングではまず見ることのない、稚魚や幼生など魅力的な生き物ばかり。このサイトでは開催した時の様子や見られた生物などの他、今後のBWDスケジュールもご紹介いたします。 "BWD"はBlack Water Dive^®の略です。Black Water Dive^®は写真家峯水亮の登録商標(商標第5812594号)です。

This is official site of Black Water Dive® produced by photographer Ryo Minemizu. Black Water Dive® is a kind of night diving. We are setting up underwater lights of high-color rendering on the sea bottom of night that while considering tides, times, places. The creature which appears is mainly juveniles and larvae. All is fascinating, and it's not to be seen at daytime or regular night diving. It will be your first experience. This site will introduce the state of the event and the creatures seen and also future of BWD schedules. *"BWD"stands for Black Water Dive®.*Black Water Dive® is a registered trademark of Ryo Minemizu.

2016年8月22日月曜日

Larva of Apolemichthys trimaculatus (Cuvier, 1831)

Taken at Kume-island Black Water Dive^®on from 28 to 31th july 2016. The larvae had many appeared at that week, but next week was very less. Depth of appearance of larvae was mainly from 8m to until surface.

Identification of Larvae of Pomacanthidae is very difficult because many species of the Meristic Characters are overlapping. Color of larvae are very similar both across species and genera. Of this time Identification was base on the color of advanced larvae.

Apolemichthys trimaculatus (Cuvier, 1831)

Larval stage, TL: about20mm

Most of the body is silver, dorsal is reddish brown.

Nape is slightly blacken.

Color of caudal peduncle is orange

Advanced larva

advanced larva, TL: about 22mm

Body yellowish, from nape to eye has dark pigment line and white framed eyespot on dorsal fin.

click to enlarge

2016年8月21日日曜日

Larva of Bothus myriaster Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Taken at Kume-island Black Water Dive^®on 29th july 2016. This larva is not few. If anything, it appears many on the surface thure the year.

Japanese common name; Hoshi-Daruma Garei
English name; Oval Flounder
Scientific name; Bothus myriaster Temminck & Schlegel,1846

Meristic Characters - D 87; A 67; P¹9; V 38; (This picture)

B. myriaster - D 85-97; A 61-73; P¹ 8-10(Eye side); V 37-39.

Larva of Bothus myriaster Temminck & Schlegel 1846　TL:about 50mm

P¹ 9 (Eye side)

Related species; (in Japan)

Bothus mancus (Broussonet, 1782) - D 96-102; A 74-81; P¹11-13(Eye side); V 39-40.
Bothus pantherinus (Rüppell, 1831) - D 88-100; A 64-72; P¹10-11(Eye side); V 37-38.

REFERENCES:
Nakabo, T. (ed.), 2013. Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species, third edition. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Pp, 2428. (in Japanese).

Okiyama M. (ed), 2014 An Atlas of Early Stage Fishes in Japan Second Edition Tokai University Press, Japan. :Pp,1912. (in Japanese).

2016年7月26日火曜日

2016 Kumejima DIVE ESTIVANT Black Water Dive® will start soon.

2016　久米島　DIVE ESTIVANTでの Black Water Dive®はまもなく開始されます。
期間　7/28-7/31, 8/4-8/7

昨年の様子はhttp://www.blackwaterdive.net/2015/09/2015-bwd-vol4.html

2016年7月20日水曜日

Larva of Cirripectes quagga (Perciformes, Blennioidei, Blenniidae)

This larva is Cirripectes quagga (Fowler & Ball, 1924) . Japanese common name is "Marcus-Mino-kaeruuo". It has been distributed in South Japan too, but for some reason of ecology photo report seems not yet. It was shooting at Okinawa mainland in late May. This ecology photo might first be at Japan.

TL: about 36mm

Meristic Characters - D Ⅶ, 15; A Ⅱ, 16; P¹ 15; P² Ⅰ,4; C ⅱ, 9, ⅱ; V 10+21.
(*Nakabo, T. (ed.), 2013)

soft rays of the caudal fin is branch off.

Fluorescent green dye has been distributed in the pectoral fins.

REFERENCES:

Nakabo, T. (ed.), 2013. Fishes of Japan with pictorial keys to the species, third edition. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Pp, 2428. (in Japanese).

Okiyama M. (ed), 2014 An Atlas of Early Stage Fishes in Japan Second Edition Tokai University Press, Japan. :Pp,1912. (in Japanese).

2016年5月14日土曜日

Tremoctopus gracilis (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852) has tentacles of jellyfish to arms.

This time, I could shooting valuable male ecology of Tremoctopus gracilis (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852) at Palau. That is probably of a third case in the world.

Tremoctopus gracilis is a very unique an octopus of open ocean-swimming with web on the arm. The male is very small compared to the female, So far, It's have been most captured in such investigation by the plankton net.

The first discovery is by David Paul of Melbourne University. It was the world's first ecological photographed at Great Barrier Reef, in Australia. after that, first report is by Dr Norman in 2002.
At that time, it has been reported to have the tentacles of cnidarians such as jellyfish. Then, that this species is holding tentacles at selectively Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis) has also been re-reported at Tree of Life Web Project. So far, how to use of this jellyfish tentacles, it has been considered for the defense or attack.

Tremoctopus gracilis (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852)　,male, ML:15mm

seems to be tentacles of Physalia physalis on the sucker arm.

Related report

Larva of Blanket Octopus
http://www.blackwaterdive.net/2016/01/larva-of-blanket-octopustremoctopus.html

REFERENCES:

Sweeney, M.J., Roper, C.F.E., Mangold, K.M., Clarke, M.R., and Boletzky, S. v. 1992. 'Larval' and juvenile cephalopods: a manual for their identification. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology - No. 513. 282pp.

Norman, M.D. 2000. Cephalopods A World Guide. Frankfurt, Germany, IKAN Publishing. 320 pp.

Jereb,P., Roper,C.F.E.,Norman,M.D.,Julian,K.F., 2014. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Cephalopod species known to date Volume 3 Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No.4, Vol.3. 382pp.

Tremoctopus - Tree of Life Web Project

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