This amazing HD video by the gang at Coralmorphologic features a flame scallop, or Lima scabra. This filter feeder, siphons water through it’s fleshy mantle (similarly to a giant clam), strains any items of nutritional value, then expels the water back out. The flame scallop maintains it’s position with the help of “byssus threads” formed by a viscous protein secretion.  The flame scallop is capable, however, of swimming away in the even of an attack by a predator.  Click here to read the complete article by Coralmorphologic.