F&G: Identifiy this!

[Robin Goodfellow]

For this fun and game post, I attach two photographs of reef-related object. The first person to correctly identify the object to my satisfaction will get my love and admiration (FWIW). Answer will be given at the end of poll, after about 7 days. For those of you who is more modest, you can summit a general answer by the poll anonymously. For those fearless ones, you can reply to this post with a detailed answer. Good luck and have fun!

Hint: One pic was shot perpendicular to another, i.e., side and front view if you will. Since this is a difficult one, I will accept an answer in the class level (kingdom, phylum, class). No scale will be given for this thread.

PS: Please don't rush me to give out answer.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like a little ball of serpent stars, to me, feeding on some bloodworms..

 

[teeljay]

I have no idea about the second picture, but the first is definately my father-in-laws hair piece. nice quiz robin.

 

[danmhippo]

I am guessing the spaghetti worm.

 

[jamesw]

I'm with DanM - Spagetti worm. Now is that a "true" worm or a round worm?

James

 

[danmhippo]

I think spaghetti is annelid.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey, you meant to say microphotograph, right?

I'm going to say jellyfish, just to be different.

 

[Robin Goodfellow]

hi.
Not! If it is a microphotograph, you will need a microscope to view the pic.

 

[Anonymous]

Not true, Mr. Pea. My father dabbled extensively in photomicrography (crystal structures viewed through polarized light--incredibly beautiful). But that's not why I say it's not a microscopic photo. I say it's not because I can see tiny airbubbles on the side of the glass, and they can only be so small. Also, by the looks of it you've oriented the photo so the vertical wall of the glass is now horizontal.

This much I'm fairly certain of. Not so certain of my guess, but I KNOW it's not via photomicrography. :mrgreen:

 

[Anonymous]

Just kidding!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

What was the identity of the last F&G thread? I voted for nudibranch.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh JEEZ! Now I see... I still say it's not via photomicrography.

<sm feelin' sheepish>

 

[Robin Goodfellow]

hi.
Iceman, do a search, and you will find the last thread. It is the abyssal gland of a T. crocea.

 

[John_Brandt]

Yo Oceanographer,

What are you trying to do to us?

You've misspelled algae and byssal.

Abyss = deep ocean.

Byssal = type of gland that some mollusks use to attach themselves to substrate.

Byssus = the silk-like threads that the byssal gland secretes.

Byssos = Greek root word that means a fine cotton or linen.

John Brandt

MASNA
MAC
CMAS-Chicago

 

[Anonymous]

hi.
Iceman, do a search, and you will find the last thread. It is the abyssal gland of a T. crocea.

Thanks. searching now....

 

[Robin Goodfellow]

hi.

I am not biologist by training, and most physical oceanographers that I work with know abyssal realm, but never heard of byssus or algae. (Well, bad excuses, but give me a break here!)

Bad spellings and "unusual" grammar had became one of my trademarks in RDO and elsewhere.

 

[Robin Goodfellow]

hi.
Oh, so the pic on the previous F&G thread should be the abyssus of the clam, not the gland. Thanx John.

I will still pick on people who misuse the term microphotograph :wink:

 

[wombat1]

I could cheat and ask biogeek, but I agree with the spaghetti worm. The red tentacles look like one. The striped stuff in the foreground...?

 

[Anonymous]

It looks like a cuke expelled his innards, but that isn't one of the choices...

 

[Robin Goodfellow]

It looks like a cuke expelled his innards, but that isn't one of the choices...

hi.
Seacuke belongs to the same phylum as the starfish/ sea star / sea basket group. It was 10 pm, and I can't spell Echinoderm for the poll choice.