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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Mystery at the bottom of the pool


Okay, so this is mystery close-up, but one that I don't know the answer to yet.  Abby spotted this organism with beautiful spreading tentacles in a very shallow, high rocky tidepool.  Our best guess at this time is that it's a species of worm (perhaps in the family Oweniidae?), but we're not sure about its identity yet. 

Just in case you're wondering, there are large pieces of sand and a piece of white shell surrounding the tentacles of the mystery worm.  There's also a tubular organism with black-stripes in the bottom center of the photo that's not associated with the mystery tentacles that's part of a different animal, a peanut worm.

If these tentacles look familiar to you, let me know!

1 comment:

VFM said...

How do you find these teeny tiny things?? Very pretty. To my very untrained eye, this looks sort of like a sea anemone with weird lacy tentacles. The tips look like nematocysts.