Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Spiralling in



A beautiful tubeworm, Spirobranchus spinosus, photographed in the low intertidal zone in Monterey County on 31 August 2019.



3 comments:

  1. One of the great pleasures from your blog is the discovery of unsuspected beauty. What a beautiful critter!!

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  2. What a beautiful and complex pattern. Makes me wonder how spirals like this originate in development. Each radiole/tentacle has to generate a different pattern of dark and light along its length. So amazing. Thanks, as alwasy, for sharing, Jackie!

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  3. Always happy to share beauty and intrigue!

    Good question about the development of the color pattern. It would be interesting to raise these worms from when they first start growing on a rock!

    :) Jackie

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