From the Taiwanese TV programme: Our Island - Angry Lobster first and second episode
我們的島 - 憤怒龍蝦(上)(下)
A Bit of the Chinese Residents' History From Studying the Old Tombs at Different Cementries:
The marine life in Pengerang and the 'kampung' style of rustic life in Pengerang are both already in threat with the coming petrochemical project RAPID. The land reclamation was already done, so the shore line and the marine life have both been destroyed. Quite a shame that nothing much or more scientific was done to record the marvelous marine creatures that used to be there. This blog can tell you a bit of what marine animals were found there before and how this place used to be.
















Soneratia (Perepat)
The nectar from this mangrove tree is the favorite food of a kind of bat.

The fruits of Soneratia. It is edible.
Black Sea Cucumber
There are a lot of them anchor under of the rock.
i like the fact that there are bacteria staying near their anus for an easier source of food. :)
Hey, this is not a rock!
Doesn't it look like melt chocolate?
This is ascidian, an animal.
The baby ascidian in the free swimming larva form has notochord (vetebrate or back bone), but degenerates when it settle down.
Rhizophora (Bakau)
The seedings grow on the mother tree for a better surviving rate in the harsh environment at mangrove.
The timber can be used to construct kelong.
Sargassum (Brown Seaweed)
The air-filled bladders look like grapes!
The extract from the brown seaweed is used to make ice-cream, so that the ice cream taste or feel more smooth.


Sea Letuce (Green Seaweed)
Seaweed has no vein, no flower and no fruit.
Red Seaweed
Sushi!
Japanese Nori is actually made from red seaweed.
A red seaweed might not looking red at all.

Sea Grass
On land, the cow eats grass. In the sea, the sea cow or dugong eats sea grass.
The sea grass is not the same as the grass on land. It lacks of a waxy-covering.
It feels slimy to touch.

Snapping Shrimp
It makes the 'snap' sound when you walk at the shore. The sound is to stun prey or intimidate rival.
i used to think the 'click' sound i heard came from the clam opening or closing its shells or a crab opening or closing its pincer.

Drill
It eats barnacle. They can secrete asid to soften the hard shell of barnacle (drill a hole). It takes them probably 8 hrs to drill a 2mm thick of hole!
In the past, people extract purple color dye from drills.

These are the egg cases of drill. The eggs are inside of the egg cases. The purple color one is the hatched larvae.

Hermit Crab
Its soft abdomen attached to the shell. So pulling it out by force will hurt it. Don't do this!
The hermit crab is not able to produce its own shell. So it will have to change to a new shell (shell from dead snails) as its size growing bigger and bigger. Collecting shells from the beach is depriving the hermit crabs from getting a suitable home.

Crab
The crab is in a defensive position.
There are abundance of them hide around the rocky shore. Please let them have a chance to grow bigger before you just snapped them and cooked them as your dish!
(i saw people collecting clam, so i think they might not spare the crabs if they found a suitable method to catch them.)

Dove Shell
This is a very tiny snail. Its shell is only around 1cm. It is omnivore (meat eater) and normally found at rocky area. Unfortunately live animals are becoming scarce.

Nerite
Take note of their streaming lines. The streaming lines prevent it from being sweep by away by the tide.

Oyster
Unfortunately, these were already opened up and harvested.
Oyster is bivalve (mollusc with two-part shells). One of the shell sticks tightly on rock.
A live oyster has rough and uneven shell while a died one (normally because of harvested by human being) has its smooth inner side of the shell exposed.