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January 13, 2007
Sunset Beach & Microscope Photos
Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
| This was a good day for finding knobbed whelks and pleasant people to whom to show them. At home afterwards I found a brittle star in seaweed that was about 1/16 inch wide. When I added amphipods to the Petri dish, one became ensnarled with the brittle star. I promptly removed them. |
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First
Knobbed Whelk | |
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Second
Knobbed Whelk emerging from sand (above) and close-up shots of barnacle-encrusted
shell (bottom) | |
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Knobbed Whelk partially extended and retracted into shell | |
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beachwalker, Dan, and I looked at a tiny knobbed whelk, a whelk egg case, and
four large whelks | |
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creamy knobbed whelk and the orange knobbed whelk | |
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| Bryozoan |
Skate egg case |
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| Sea
foam floating by | |
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| Sponges | |
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| Worm
egg casing or tube | Horseshoe
crab exoskeleton. By now they have been eaten away and destroyed by the surf |
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A
brittle star that I found in seaweed after returning home, about 1/16th of an
inch wide | |
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Amphipod
-- moving | Brittle
star and amphipod -- both moving |
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Barnacles | |
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