found by @nudibitch
2nd record of this species! Found at a -.8ft low tide, at night, no wind, no waves
more pictures of this individual: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194171352
More pictures of 1st recorded individual: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90419664
cerata cores are dark green, found one with light green cerata cores here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160203257
so curious
-1.8 ft low tide
Hopping around on brown algae
From hydroid clump
Freshwater aquatic insects in running creek. This insect was living in a tube with 5 prongs, connected by a web of mucus/silk which it used to catch particles in the water. I watch it actively eat the webbing and create new webbing. There were about 5 active ones on a rock, they were about 1cm tall.
Inside Halichondria sp. Looks like L. alata but extended process on article 5 on Gnathopod 2 is longer than average and dactyl has interior bump with setae. Gnathopod 1 dactyl minute with long setae, article 2 curves steeply. Coxae deeper than wider with numerous bumps. Stridulation ventral coxal plates. Rostrum more prominent with longer antenna. Antennae 1 with 16 segments and minute accessory flagellum. Eyes with >20 ommatidia
Female. Prominent accessory flagellum. Gnathopod 2 larger than G1, subchelate. Pleonite 3 posterior margin acute and overlay urosomite 1 and 2. Urosomite 1 having medial distal tooth and Urosomite 2 having 3 medial distal teeth with the one in the middle extending into the air. Telson laminar and deeply cleft with lateral and dorsal spines.
Inside of Halichondria sp. Two had a polka dot polka-dot pattern and some had a prominent ridge of the anterior side of the propodus, including the brooding female. Distinctly L. alata with antenna 1 with 9-13 segments and accessory flagellum.
Low tide. Molt of tanaid?
Found in yellow Haplosclerid sponge on dock. Telson laminar and uncleft, uropod 3 with two Rami narrow and spiny. Gnathopod 2 larger than 1 with 1 being distinctly carpochelate and G2 being subchelate. G2 dactyl reach distal process of article 5. G1 dactyl shorter than article 3 Male has maxillapede instead of keel.
Species described as an invasive introduced to San Francisco bay.
Commensal on purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Low tide rocky intertidal -.9 Living in a tube
Santa Barbara County, California.
Only about 2-3 mm. Cerrata were green with cream tips, and the head was yellowish between the rhinophores. Mcduck pointed out that no oral tentacles were visible (pointing ID to T. adspersa). Body was blotchy cream and brown. Longish, mostly-clear tail contracted as it moved; see video: https://flic.kr/p/XfaDk2
Note that the truly miniscule photobomb nudibranch (maybe a juvenile) is paler and has a T. adspersa-like semicircular oral veil.
Location: T. adspersa is an esturine/brackish species. The comment on http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=W14820 regarding low salinity environments certainly fits this observation -- we had record low salinity after spring storms this year.
Feeding: Originally on hydroids in harbor. I'm no hydroid expert, but I'd say they were Obelia of some sort, and Ectopleura were present as well. From reading up a bit, Tenellia adspersa feed on both Obelia dichotoma and Ectopleura crocea. Here's the observation for the Obelia: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7813379 And the Ectopleura: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7813378
Or the very rare Cuthona virens?
@jeffgoddard this is the same individual I sent you a photo of earlier.
so excited!!!!!!!!!
-0.8 ft low tide
It looks like a Macfarlands, but much lighter without the middle strip. The rhinophores and gills are much darker.
Dock foul
Shell about 3.5 mm long; found crawling on algae in a low intertidal pool at McKenney Point, Cape Elizabeth.
See:
Ohnheiser & Malaquias (2014. The family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea)
in Europe, with a redescription of the enigmatic species Colobocephalus
costellatus M. Sars, 1870. Zootaxa 3774 (6): 501–522.) Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260684868
https://opistobranquis.info/en/guia/cephalaspidea/cylichnoidea/diaphana-minuta/
La Jolla Canyon ~85ft. Coming out of its tube
11 seen, all on Thuiaria hydroid prey. This observation contains pictures of multiple individuals.
ID'ed during survey by peracarid specialist. Collected with permits during PICES-Rapid Assessment Survey 2010
ID'ed during survey by peracarid specialist. Collected with permits during PICES-Rapid Assessment Survey 2010
This is for the hitchhiker on the Limacia cockerelli. Flatworm or Arctonoe scale worm?!
2 individuals were collected. First thoracomere fused with head, 5th peronite (free, 6th thoracomere) compressed, peropods have 3 claw dactyl, pleotelson not pear shaped with medial small serrations, uropods half length of pleotelson, urosome flattish, narrow anteriorly, first pereopod propodus (article 6) smooth.
Nudibranch Coryphella trilineata (northern form, about 10mm long) & look-alike amphipod Podocerus cristatus. Scanned from a 35 mm slide I took in the lab in 1984. I had found the specimens in close proximity to each other a few days earlier in the low intertidal at Middle Cove, Cape Arago, Oregon. The amphipod (and her recently hatched juveniles, visible at lower right when viewed large) are on a piece of the outer tube of the polychaete Pista elongata; the slug is on a piece of the hydroid Abietinaria.
Notice the white head tentacles of the slug and the white antennae on the amphipod. Here's what one form of the amphipod looks like in central California, where the southern form of O. trilineata ( with chromium orange on their rhinophores and cephalic tentacles) is prevalent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1103734
Farther south, near Puerto Vallarta, MX, the amphipod lacks white lines, just like the abundant local aeolids (see Fig. 1f-h in paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282252603).
6mm length. Found in rocky intertidal.
Low tide -.52ft, rocky intertidal
Abundant under rocks at low tide.
low tide. The stalked epizoics on the hydroid
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-0362 | 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
La Jolla Shores / Crap Patch and shallow walls. 60ft. Cute little white shelled snail, about 2 cm long. Photos by Amy Balwin-Granger
24 mm long. Found intertidally.
north of vallecitos point, ~30ft
Provisional name = Flabelligeridae HK01 | Photo license and credit belongs to Florida Museum of Natural History & University of Hong Kong | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, University of Hong Kong's Swire Institute of Marine Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
inverts from RV Yellowfin cruise_Kimo Morris. Epitoke
La Jolla Canyon 30ft depth
on oregon-grape leaves in moist mixedwood forest, about 2 mm
In freshwater vernal pool
In freshwater vernal pool. Lots of females with eggs. The green iridescence on the thorax is so pretty!
Low tide -1.05, found tide pooling
About 4 mm long, found in a tide pool at Hazard Canyon.
Low tide
La Jolla Canyon Vallecitos Point ~55ft
Tide Pools at low tide
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-2979 | 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
Actually kind of a cute face hehe
tide pooling at low tide. carrying the burden of of red algae
tide pooling at low tide. Notice the difference in right left symmetry: one side has larger cerata with pink tips, large rhinophore, and longer oral tentacle.
Low tide, lower intertidal ~7mm long
Found on debris in water while kayaking