Many babies schooling around presumed parent in shaded, shallow (1/2 to 1 ft deep) backwater swamp. Based on a quick dot-count, I estimate that there were as many as 2000-3000 baby bowfins in the school.
Only one plant. Many dead. Horses everywhere, probably feral. Either way they're grazing everything down to shit. Could use some pumas here.
ID with help from Milton Love and Jack Engle at University of California, Santa Barbara. Overall length about 3cm. Very shy. 5-6 individuals observed in crevices at around 50-60’ depth in the dive park at Catalina Island. Possibly a range extension for this species. This was the only image I was able to capture that was worthwhile.
Collected with permission and permit on TPWD property. Drift net on spring. This is a relatively common species in this spring.
Diameter is 1.3 mm
Tylozygus geometricus. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.
Unusually large for a psuedoscorpion ~15mm; Thanks to Gretchen Baker for this special treat.
These were awesome! They were hanging out among some brambles underwater. This beautiful female posed for us in the sunlight.
Row of egg masses on eelgrass
Eggs of Plainfin Midshipman - guarded by a Big Mama. You can see the babies inside!!
Form change within 10 minutes of disturbance.
Type locality at Agua Caliente Wash, accessed from Pacific Crest Trail.
Kind of creepy, but I guess everybody has some.
Pink/purple guts when gravid, size and locality are distinctive of A. labiata. A. aurita is in the North Sea, and A. sp1 is found in harbors. A. labiata is the most common moon jelly on open coast California.
Found in a swarm of brown sea nettles Chrysaora fuscescens at the Monterey breakwater.
Sacoglossan Sea Slug. Maximum length 6 mm. Rhinophores cylindrical, enrolled,
black with posterior white stripes from base to half-way up,
leaving apices completely black. Oral tentacles
completely black; foot corners yellow. Head black with two
yellow-orange patches, eyespots at base of yellow-orange
patches. Lateral yellow-orange line on head connects
yellow-orange eye patches to dorsum. Body elongate,
with numerous cylindrical cerata covering most of the
dorsum. Proximal half of cerata yellow-orange, distal half
black. Foot yellow-orange ventrally from head to tail.
Posterior end of foot is pointed, black dorsally.
Radula of a 4 mm long specimen from Catalina Island,
California (CPIC 01962) composed of 7 teeth in ascending
row, 12 teeth in descending row, and 2–4 teeth in ascus. Leading tooth smooth, lacking denticles, with a cylindrical,
short, slightly curved, pointed cusp. Base of teeth
short, triangular, slightly concave ventrally.
a few neat catches from the 2017 Maine lobster season
Mid-water trawl
Very rare endemic shark, this is only the fifth one I have seen, previously saw two off Brisbane at Shag Rock and Manta Bommie in 1992 and two off the Gold Coast at Palm Beach Reef in 1994.
Sampled from a midwater tow (200 m) in the Gerlache Strait, Antarctica.
Caught via otter trawling w/ Marine Science Institute. Caught juvenile Bat Rays in high densities (28 individuals in one net) including this one.
Eyes not shown, but iris' are red making for a true albino.
Badger and Coyote hunting prairie dogs together as a team
No idea what this little guy is. Not a kelpfish, not a sarcastic fringe head. Possibly a blenny/goby?
Duck Lake
Female blue morph.
Horse Lubber Grasshopper
Taeniopoda eques
Cienega Creek,
Big Bend Ranch State Park,
Presidio Co., Texas
22 August 2013
Co-occurring with S. bellum, but preferring slightly damper habitats. Growing along shallow creek.
Lampreys spawning up the fish ladder
San Diego County, California, US
First found by @barbaralloyd. Believed to be the first time this species has been found in San Diego County.
Juvenile Seriola lalandi lalandi (Yellowtail Kingfish)
Posting courtesy of Wade Doak.
Photo by Chrispin Middleton
My proudest moment: this photo was chosen for Bowiebranchia!
https://bowiebranchia.tumblr.com/post/175044110432/upright-white-and-electric-blue
Dive at Titlow, just south of the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Max depth 14 m
ID as Gaussia princeps by Linsey Sala, SIO Pelagic Invertebrate Collection Manager
15 mm long. One of 11 specimens I found underneath rock ledges at Tarpits Reef on this date.
Aside from one specimen found subtidally by Craig Hoover off Las Floras Canyon, Malibu in April 2014 (http://slugsite.us/bow2007/nudwk874.htm), this species is still only known from its type locality at Tarpits Reef.
While it wasn't the camo critter we were out there specifically to study, who could help but love the face of the Sargassumfish (Histrio histrio). Ok, granted I really dig all frogfish, they are remarkable creatures, but H. histrio is quite a marvel, and we found them in abundance, though all were quite small. This fellow is about 1.75 inches long at most (as that was the largest size we found on this trip!) They do get much larger, upwards of 8 inches.
San Diego County, California, US
The last photo is a photomerge showing the bird being swept off the rocks from one of the large waves. It flew away uninjured after the incident.
Succinea putris meripihkakotilo, Gastropoda-Kotilot.
San Diego County, California, US
@pileated and I found this interesting snail on the underside of an oak branch that was on rotting on the ground. I took a DNA swipe for SLIME and hope that I was able to get enough but the slug was about the same size as the swab head so I'm only slightly hopeful of having been successful.
Undescribed Sonorella species near Bartlett Lake Dam in Rocky side canyon to the west. Basalt talus slide. 90 min search found 8 shells and 15 live mature snails.