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by Tidepool Geek
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan,
OK, I give up and demonstrate my ignorance - What is the whitish spiny looking thing in the fourth panel (with the Dock Shrimp)?
BTW: Wonderful photos as always!
Curiously yours,
Alex
by Tidepool Geek
Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:59 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan,
Great images as always!
Are there any indications as to why the two species of snails have arranged themselves as shown? Habitat differences (current regime, sunlight, etc.) or is it that one species is crowding out the other over time?
Competitively yours,
Alex
by Tidepool Geek
Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:04 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mystery Worms At Redondo
Replies: 2
Views: 697

Re: Mystery Worms At Redondo

Greetings, My guess is that it's a White Lined Ribbon Worm (Tetrastemma nigrifrons) and can be found on page 120 of Andy Lamb's Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. You could also try searching on "Tetrastemma nigrifrons" or "Quasitetrastemma nigrifrons" although it seems that t...
by Tidepool Geek
Sat Apr 15, 2023 10:40 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan,
Great find!
Great images!
Great research to figure out what you found!
Impressedly yours, :notworthy:
Alex
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:22 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Jan, you never cease to amaze! Beautiful images as always but I don't think that I've ever heard of the White Dotted Cucumber and I'm positive that I've never heard of the Roll-Top Tubeworm.
Keep up the good work!
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:41 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan, My sympathies! I've had similar experiences on Quora and it's frustrating. A machine algorithm focuses on something no human would give a second thought to. On Quora I'm 5 for 6 on getting these things reversed by simply asking for an explanation (once a human reads the post the ruling is re...
by Tidepool Geek
Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:54 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan,
Was there any indication as to who was doing the octopus research?
Curiously yours,
Alex
by Tidepool Geek
Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:59 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Hi Jan, It has been said that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is to post the wrong answer so maybe I can help on those unidentified anemones. Here's what I think: The red one is some sort of Epiactis - Maybe E. lisbethae or E. ritteri The other one is Urticina clandestina I now ...
by Tidepool Geek
Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:25 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: A new type of critter watching
Replies: 1
Views: 1604

A new type of critter watching

Greetings, I just came across this article in the NY Times online edition and thought some of you might be interested. The art & science of blackwater diving and photography (includes some amazing images): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/blackwater-photography-fish-larvae.html The und...
by Tidepool Geek
Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:21 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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...
by Tidepool Geek
Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:44 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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 ...
by Tidepool Geek
Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:24 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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
by Tidepool Geek
Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:51 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: ID help please
Replies: 1
Views: 2304

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
by Tidepool Geek
Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:51 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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
by Tidepool Geek
Sat Jul 06, 2019 9:25 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: What is this little guy?
Replies: 3
Views: 2793

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 La...
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:30 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:25 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: New flatfish e-book
Replies: 4
Views: 2800

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
by Tidepool Geek
Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:39 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Some form of plankton?
Replies: 1
Views: 1827

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
by Tidepool Geek
Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:02 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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 &...
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:25 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: The Pyrosomes may be returning
Replies: 0
Views: 1548

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
by Tidepool Geek
Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:10 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Mixotroph article
Replies: 3
Views: 2232

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/article/tiny-creatures-part-plant-and-part-animal-may-control-the-fate-of-the-planet/ Not so with at least some ...
by Tidepool Geek
Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:19 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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
by Tidepool Geek
Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:25 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5393
Views: 925077

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
by Tidepool Geek
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: 4390

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
by Tidepool Geek
Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:51 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Octopus, octopus, octopus?
Replies: 3
Views: 2282

Re: Octopus, octopus, octopus?

Hi Laura,

Thanks so much for this link - Fascinating information!