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- Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:21 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan, Congratulations on taking part in such an important paper! It took me quite a while to get through it (what with shuttling back and forth to Google in order to figure out the terminology) but in the end it seems to tick all the boxes that other papers missed and even explained some things th...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:44 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan, My God. I hope you're ashamed for missing that critter when you were on site! I mean, that thing had to be at least a half millimeter in diameter. If it's not obvious, I'm kidding. It did look like two or three other 'fingers' had similar occupants. With luck, maybe somebody knows what they ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:24 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Thanks as always for the excellent photographs but thanks especially for finding the https://www.vichighmarine.ca/ website!
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
Thanks as always for the excellent photographs but thanks especially for finding the https://www.vichighmarine.ca/ website!
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:51 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: ID help please
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1054
Re: ID help please
Greetings,
I'm often wrong about these things but that looks like an Arrow Worm or Cheatognath to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetognatha
I'm often wrong about these things but that looks like an Arrow Worm or Cheatognath to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetognatha
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:51 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Nice find and a fascinating bit of history!
It's a bit concerning to think about the potential for invasiveness though.
Nervously yours,
Alex
Nice find and a fascinating bit of history!
It's a bit concerning to think about the potential for invasiveness though.
Nervously yours,
Alex
- Sat Jul 06, 2019 9:25 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: What is this little guy?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1507
Re: What is this little guy?
Greetings, I think that it's a White-Lined Ribbon Worm ( Quasitetrastemma nigrifrons ) http://www.marinespecies.org/nemertea/photogallery.php?album=775&pic=117171 It is described on page 69 of Beneath Pacific Tides by Greg Jensen and on page 120 of Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andy Lamb (...
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:30 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Great images and a terrific find! Hopefully, now that you've found your first, more of these will follow.
I'd love to have one of these at the Feiro Center but it might not be possible to collect one intact. Did you get any sense of how robust the tube and spokes were?
Enviously yours,
Alex
Great images and a terrific find! Hopefully, now that you've found your first, more of these will follow.
I'd love to have one of these at the Feiro Center but it might not be possible to collect one intact. Did you get any sense of how robust the tube and spokes were?
Enviously yours,
Alex
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: New flatfish e-book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1653
Re: New flatfish e-book
Hi Greg,
Thank You!!! It seems like every other I.D. reference assumes that you're looking at a freshly dead fish in a lab. Doing this for the field observer is just terrific!
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
Thank You!!! It seems like every other I.D. reference assumes that you're looking at a freshly dead fish in a lab. Doing this for the field observer is just terrific!
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:39 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Some form of plankton?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1174
Re: Some form of plankton?
Hi Derek,
I've always called them Disk Diatoms. There are probably multiple species, but that's way beyond my pay grade.
Algally yours,
Alex
I've always called them Disk Diatoms. There are probably multiple species, but that's way beyond my pay grade.
Algally yours,
Alex
- Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:02 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan, Your photography is always terrific, but you've outdone yourself with that image of nudibranch eggs - incredible detail! Plus, I always enjoy seeing photos of things named for the wrong color; like the yellow "White Nudibranch" or a purple "Ochre Star" or a yellow/green &...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: The Pyrosomes may be returning
- Replies: 0
- Views: 970
The Pyrosomes may be returning
Greetings,
I just came across this article from April 12:
http://katu.com/news/local/the-invasion ... el-mystery
Something to look for in the coming months.
Luminously yours,
Alex
I just came across this article from April 12:
http://katu.com/news/local/the-invasion ... el-mystery
Something to look for in the coming months.
Luminously yours,
Alex
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:10 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Mixotroph article
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1314
Re: Mixotroph article
Hi Waynne,
Scientific American seems to keep their newer articles behind a pay wall; the link to this article leads to a very short "preview": https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... he-planet/
Not so with at least some of their older material. Here is a similar article by the same author from November 2016: https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... he-oceans/
Retrospectively yours,
Alex
Scientific American seems to keep their newer articles behind a pay wall; the link to this article leads to a very short "preview": https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... he-planet/
Not so with at least some of their older material. Here is a similar article by the same author from November 2016: https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... he-oceans/
Retrospectively yours,
Alex
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:19 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Great images as always but I also want to thank you for digging up all that background information.
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
Great images as always but I also want to thank you for digging up all that background information.
Appreciatively yours,
Alex
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:25 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
I'm looking forward to what you learn on this.
I'd also be interested in how the study itself came to be. Did you reach out to UBC about the disease or were they already working on it?
Contagiously yours,
Alex
I'm looking forward to what you learn on this.
I'd also be interested in how the study itself came to be. Did you reach out to UBC about the disease or were they already working on it?
Contagiously yours,
Alex
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:32 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2595
Re: Orange Sea Pens, Flabellina verrucosa, and Other Predators
Hi Tom,
Terrific observations and images!
I thought you might be interested in this article on the life history of Sea Pens:
http://ronshimek.com/blog/?p=293
Recruitably yours,
Alex
Terrific observations and images!
I thought you might be interested in this article on the life history of Sea Pens:
http://ronshimek.com/blog/?p=293
Recruitably yours,
Alex
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:51 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Octopus, octopus, octopus?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1355
Re: Octopus, octopus, octopus?
Hi Laura,
Thanks so much for this link - Fascinating information!
Thanks so much for this link - Fascinating information!
- Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:14 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan, Terrific photos as always: Thanks & keep up the good work! I don't know why but, no matter how many times I see it happening, I'm always surprised at how many things eat jellyfish. Rockweed trivia: I've been told that the slimy stuff found in the rockweed's floats is essentially the same...
- Wed Sep 06, 2017 4:58 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Diving & The Economy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3015
Diving & The Economy
Greetings,
I normally only participate on the Critterwatchers forum but I thought the following might be of interest to a wider group:
http://www.seadocsociety.org/seadoc-fin ... l-economy/
My apologies if this is the wrong place.
Financially yours,
Alex
I normally only participate on the Critterwatchers forum but I thought the following might be of interest to a wider group:
http://www.seadocsociety.org/seadoc-fin ... l-economy/
My apologies if this is the wrong place.
Financially yours,
Alex
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:14 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Strangely colored Stubby Rose Anemone
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1129
Re: Strangely colored Stubby Rose Anemone
Hi Taryn,
I think that your I.D.'s are correct except that the Stubby Rose has been renamed to Urticina clandestina. Check out this site: http://actiniaria.com/urticina_clandestina.php
Semanticly yours,
Alex
I think that your I.D.'s are correct except that the Stubby Rose has been renamed to Urticina clandestina. Check out this site: http://actiniaria.com/urticina_clandestina.php
Semanticly yours,
Alex
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 5:10 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Wonderful images and fascinating information!
I've got a question about the anemones - What is the structure that they're growing on in the image and do you have any sense of how long it has been there?
Agedly yours,
Alex
Wonderful images and fascinating information!
I've got a question about the anemones - What is the structure that they're growing on in the image and do you have any sense of how long it has been there?
Agedly yours,
Alex
- Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:50 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
More amazing images and terrific information! Thanks for all your good work.
Sycophantishly yours,
Alex
More amazing images and terrific information! Thanks for all your good work.
Sycophantishly yours,
Alex
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:37 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Nudibranch ID
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2354
Re: Nudibranch ID
Hi Taryn, You might try the Sea Slug Forum - m They have information on and images of just about any nudibranch imaginable. Searching for a photo match can be daunting because there are so many species covered but, if all else fails, you can send your photos to them for an I.D. Be aware though: this...
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:19 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Little Keystone Feeder
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1342
Re: Little Keystone Feeder
Hi Carl, I agree completely with Jan. Just wanted to add that the "feelers" are actually modified feet - barnacles are crustaceans that are standing on their heads and kicking food into their mouths. More information can be found by doing a Google search on Balanus nubilus. Additively your...
- Wed May 31, 2017 6:40 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Wow! What an amazing and stark contrast. Any ideas about what might have changed in the environment of that rock?
Changeably yours,
Alex
Wow! What an amazing and stark contrast. Any ideas about what might have changed in the environment of that rock?
Changeably yours,
Alex
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:00 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 4652
- Views: 590892
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Hi Jan,
Your photos are always terrific but that first image of the leafy hornmouth & eggs is truly a cut above!
Gobsmackedly yours,
Alex
Your photos are always terrific but that first image of the leafy hornmouth & eggs is truly a cut above!
Gobsmackedly yours,
Alex