Dr. Ron,
I was finally able to catch up on my reading and lecture notes. The animal that I plan to send you (I sent pictures to you last week), as soon as I get home from California, certainly fits the description of an entoproct. It very closely resembles the photograph in R&B and displays the odd flexing in the middle of the stalk that you describe in the lecture notes. It's insides are full of organs and I can see cilia on the edges of the tentacles. The tentacles curl up and close over the upper surface of the animal as described in the text. I find the animals attached to the bryopsis that is growing in my refugium.
Pretty cool!
I was finally able to catch up on my reading and lecture notes. The animal that I plan to send you (I sent pictures to you last week), as soon as I get home from California, certainly fits the description of an entoproct. It very closely resembles the photograph in R&B and displays the odd flexing in the middle of the stalk that you describe in the lecture notes. It's insides are full of organs and I can see cilia on the edges of the tentacles. The tentacles curl up and close over the upper surface of the animal as described in the text. I find the animals attached to the bryopsis that is growing in my refugium.
Pretty cool!
