Identify this water creature
September 10, 2015 3:46 AM Subscribe
Identify mystery water creature.
I'm in benidorm and in the pool I just found a strange creature. Its about an inch long, brown on top with a lighter coloured underside, solid body as best I can tell. It has 2 very long "arms", that appear to bend in multiple places. It can swim under water and scull on the surface. It possibly has some sort of camouflage as I was looking right at it and it disappeared.
It has 2 bulging eyes at the front, very close together and when we caught it, it used its arms to jump around.
It seemed to me to be some sort of fish but I don't know how it got in the pool unless it came from the sea on someone's clothes (a few of us went sea kayaking yesterday)
I'm in benidorm and in the pool I just found a strange creature. Its about an inch long, brown on top with a lighter coloured underside, solid body as best I can tell. It has 2 very long "arms", that appear to bend in multiple places. It can swim under water and scull on the surface. It possibly has some sort of camouflage as I was looking right at it and it disappeared.
It has 2 bulging eyes at the front, very close together and when we caught it, it used its arms to jump around.
It seemed to me to be some sort of fish but I don't know how it got in the pool unless it came from the sea on someone's clothes (a few of us went sea kayaking yesterday)
I'm assuming you can't/didn't take photos?
posted by Ursula Hitler at 4:30 AM on September 10, 2015
posted by Ursula Hitler at 4:30 AM on September 10, 2015
I agree with pipeski that the "2 very long arms" and swimming underwater or skulling on the surface sounds like something in the water boatman family (corixidae). Most of them are able to fly (although they don't do it often), so they can easily show up in a pool
posted by hydropsyche at 6:11 AM on September 10, 2015
posted by hydropsyche at 6:11 AM on September 10, 2015
Another possibility, if it looked more insect than amphibian, is a Giant Water Bug. These bugs are really big. They are pretty charming, great swimmers and divers. They can take a bubble of air with them and dive under water for a long time, using it like a scuba tank.
posted by Miko at 11:10 AM on September 10, 2015
posted by Miko at 11:10 AM on September 10, 2015
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posted by pipeski at 3:55 AM on September 10, 2015 [2 favorites]