Skeleton Shrimp

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Magoi
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Skeleton Shrimp

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We did a dive this morning at the old Dickman Mill Park in Tacoma. Found the weird critter below on a piece of kelp. Thanks to Greg Jensen's excellent crab and shrimp book, I identified it as a caprellid amphipod or skeleton shrimp. It appears that the two white ovals on the kelp are part of the critter. It was about 2-2.5 inches long. There were also an unbelievable number of opalescent nudi's in the eel grass west of the pilings.
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Nice find!
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Cool! I love those little guys! :)
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Yes, nice find. Those little critters are cool.
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