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!
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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.
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