Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-6922 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Crab megalopa in a ctenophore that washed ashore. Tentatively saying dungeness given the size.
Here's the observation for the comb jelly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124070301
Less than 1 cm. Red, white and blue stripes and very active. 10x macro lens.
Captured in a larval light trap during a plankton bioblitz for the @hakaiinstitute. Fish caught in the light trap were released.
Shrimp with parasite
Trapped using a light trap by Jeannine Georgeson and Austin Baines (IMERSS) through Hakai Sentinels of Change monitoring program
Trapped using a light trap by Jeannine Georgeson and Austin Baines (IMERSS) through Hakai Sentinels of Change monitoring program
My guess is young crab zoea that still has long spines pointing forward and back. The trap was full of hundreds of these today. And the blue eye with black spots is like the eye of blackclaw crab megalopa we get in the trap. The second photo shows 4 individuals. The back spine is clearly shown on the center one.
Three photos of what looks like a juvenile Sailfin Sculpin. One photo is overview of collection tub with red circle showing this individual for scale. Other two photos are 10x macro photos. Close up of eye with skin flap seems to indicate Sailfin Sculpin.
Zoomed out photo showing collection tub with octobaby circled in red for scale. Other two images are with 10x macro lens
female.
listen to the call from different individual (male?) here: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/112720514
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
This observation is part of a long-term project examining plankton biodiversity in the nearshore waters around the Hakai Institute's Quadra Island ecological observatory. A COI DNA sequence from the organism has been deposited in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Photo license and credit belong to the Hakai Institute.
on settlement plate at 1m. Serpulid with fairly smooth tube being overgrown by Schizoporella japonia. Mytilus trossulus juvenile tucked in with the worm.