Hi Jan,
Your mystery organism in the first panael reminded me of the newly described "Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt" (Clavelina ossipandae) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_panda_sea_squirt - from Japan. That led me to a couple of entries in Greg Jensen's Beneath Pacific Tides (both on page 274):
- Pycnoclavella stanleyi
- Clavelina huntsmani
Just some possibilities for your consideration.
Considerably yours,
Alex
P.S. If nothing else, my identifying things here generally leads to Greg correcting me and giving a better I.D.
Tidepool Geek wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:57 am
Hi Jan,
Your mystery organism in the first panael reminded me of the newly described "Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt" (Clavelina ossipandae) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_panda_sea_squirt - from Japan. That led me to a couple of entries in Greg Jensen's Beneath Pacific Tides (both on page 274):
- Pycnoclavella stanleyi
- Clavelina huntsmani
Just some possibilities for your consideration.
Considerably yours,
Alex
P.S. If nothing else, my identifying things here generally leads to Greg correcting me and giving a better I.D.
Thank you Alex for your input.
I am familiar with P. stanleyi. However the ones on that floating driftwood are much smaller. My camera cannot get better picture unfortunately. The C. ossipandae has some resemblance, but doesn't have white top and "eyes and nose" black dot s. Also missing the horizontal blood vessels.
Maybe Greg will have some ideas, but there is probably not enough detail in my photo.
Driftwood Pond #2, March 30, 2024
So close to its neighbor, Pond #1, and yet it is so different from it.
No Moon jellyfish at all. Not even one. And has what I call the Dead Zone in its deep parts.
Langley Harbor, April 14, 2024 dive.
I was surprised to see group of ladies in thin wetsuits swimming along the shore for the whole one hour I was diving. In a drysuit.
Impressive.