Kelp finds - September 2013
What could be better than a day at the aquarium? A washed up hunk of kelp on the beach! All of the following creatures were found hiding in the kelp. You'll never look at kelp on the beach the same way again :)
We could use some help identifying these!
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| anemone |
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| nudibranch |
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| something orange a brittle star spit out |
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| anemone |
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| some kind of shrimp and a skeleton shrimp on the right |
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| aggregating anemone |
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| hard to see but it's a tiny feather duster worm |
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| ghost shrimp? |
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| western spiny brittle and a flat worm |
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| unidentified anemone |
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| some kind of worm out of its tube |
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| unidentified |
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| larval octopus |
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| unidentified |
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| unidentified |
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| anemone |
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| unidentified |
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| peanut worm? |
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| worm and mussel with its foot out |
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| purple star |
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| ghost shrimp |
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| larval octopus - so cute! |
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| larval octopus |
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| unidentified brittle |
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| unidentified brittle |
We could use some help identifying these!
Great pics!!! Such a fun day for us. No classroom text will beat the power of observation. :)
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