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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:25 pm
by Greg Jensen
Alex is correct in that the shape of the ghost shrimp's claw looks more like a gigas, but as noted the eyestalks are those of a californiensis. I've been fooled by ones like this in the past- it could be that regenerating claws take a while to develop the expansion that is normally seen in large californiensis males.
Adult male gigas are really spectacular- way, way more dramatic looking than the one shown in my book- as their claw can be bigger than the rest of their body.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:32 pm
by Jan K
Thank you Greg for your input. I am amazed how rare sight it is for me to see the shrimp itself when I swim over so many of their "volcanic" mounds.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:00 pm
by Greg Jensen
Well, you saw how clumsy and slow it was walking around in the open. Once they're out of the burrow they're toast- he's probably in a staghorn's tummy by now.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:18 am
by Jan K
The time for watch out for menacing Lingcod is here again.
As every winter the male Lings get in sour mood when we get close to their egg nests.
I found three new ones yesterday.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:53 pm
by ScubaJess
Man they scare me now since that guy at cove 2 tried to ram me head on twice! I will stay far away from these protective daddies! Great shots Jan!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:30 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:08 am
by ScubaJess
Sad :(
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:40 pm
by Jan K
Another dive, another dollar ... or two, or ....
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:40 am
by Norris
Love it
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:11 pm
by Jan K
Another critter from Keystone, some inflated and some deflated Broadbase tunicates:
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:08 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:34 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:07 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:04 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:19 am
by oldsalt
Jan: Those tires were not sunk as an artificial reef, but as a floating breakwater around the docks to dampen wave energy. This was prior to the building of the wood pile structure that now surrounds the docks. I remember being moored on the outside float and still getting bounced around. The tires were not only inadequate protection, but they failed to stay afloat. I suspect the cost at the time was minimal, surely less than the cost of removing them.
Go seastars! Don't get wasted!
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:01 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 7:10 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:24 pm
by Greg Jensen
Actually I don't think these are one of the nudies that uses nematocysts for its own defense-
see
http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3386
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:03 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:18 am
by Penopolypants
Ooh, all those crabs are kinda creepy!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:17 am
by Scubie Doo
Awesome stuff Jan. These shots are so cool.... And as p-pants said, a little creepy
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:48 am
by Echo
Yeah, I saw that pile yesterday too! Scubajess and I were chatting about it on our SI. we thought it was very odd as well
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:36 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 8:20 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:41 pm
by carlk3
I was surprised to learn that, in an evolutionary sense, brown algae are not plants. Plants, animals, fungi, and brown algae each evolved multicellularity independently of each other and consequently have very different cell structures. People, plants, and brown algae are -- as far as we know -- equally related to each other. (But people and fungi are closer!)
- Carl
references:
http://tolweb.org/Eukaryotes/3
http://www.lucasbrouwers.nl/blog/2010/0 ... a-genomes/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism