Spring Break - Marine Invertebrates. The largest specimen in the museum, the blue whale, depends on a very small marine invertebrate – krill! Today we’re highlighting #MarineInvertebrates in the museum.
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Photo taken on May 12, 2021 with my NIKON D5200 using the NIKKOR C Auto 1:4.5 f=80~200mm (i) lens. Find more information at https://gommadigitale.com/photo/12-05-2021/992
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A log, without bark, in shallow water. Part of it is open to the centre; here it's hollowed out, with deep, blackish, round holes, tunnels made by shipworm. (Bankia setacea, not a worm, but a clam.) The outer skin of the wood has a pattern in grey and cream, made by a wood-rot fungus. The log floats beside another log, this one covered with green algae. The bottom of the stream is gravel, mostly smooth stones.
Floating log; inner tunnelling, outer spalting. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/hidd... #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Fungi #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
The pincer arm of a big crab, lying on the sand. It's from a molt, and is intact, except for being removed from the rest of the shell and legs. The exposed side is white, with red edges; the business end is white and strongly toothed; could give you a nasty bite if it were still attached to a live crab.
Dungeness crab cheliped.From a molt. wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/crit... #VancouverIsland #MarineInvertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
A rock face in the sunshine at low tide. It's covered with life; oysters, barnacles, and mussels. The blue mussels are tied together in tight groups, the barnacles and oysters spread around. There are a few limpets. In between the animals, an encrusting stage of red alga paints the rock; a few clumps of green rockweed hang down on the right side. The rock itself, where it can be seen, is greenish, with a sandy texture.
Mussels, barnacles, oysters glued to an intertidal rock. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/stay... #VancouverIsland #Oysters #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
A sandy beach. The outgoing tide has left waves in the sand. And spotted here and there are the "cake decoration" fecal castings of lugworms; round, coiled, tube-like masses of clean sand. The worms in their burrows swallow the sand, digest the organic detritus, and poop out the rest onto the surface.
Worm poops on the sand. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/of-t... #VancouverIsland #PolychaeteWorms #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Three sea anemones just underwater. They have short pink, white and cream tentacles around the mouth and a yellowish-green, knobby base. One has a mouth full of sand; another has a piece of seaweed. They're on sand with bits of seaweed and barnacle shells; there's a green blade of translucent sea lettuce.
Pink-tipped green anemones in the upper intertidal zone. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/when... #VancouverIsland #Anemones #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Have a look 👇
#metabolomics #oceanacidification #marineinvertebrates
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor (Marine Invertebrates) - Jacksonville Univeristy
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Photo taken on May 12, 2021 with my NIKON D5200 using the NIKKOR C Auto 1:4.5 f=80~200mm (i) lens. Find more information at https://gommadigitale.com/photo/12-05-2021/992
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An underwater photo. On the left, there's a barnacle-covered piling. On the piling, there's a kelp crab, blurry in the semi-dark and the moving water. He is stretching out his long chelipeds, pinching jaws wide open, ready to grab anything that comes near. (Does he see me, above him, with the camera?) The crab is brown, with bits of orange. The water is green, with whitish reflections.
Watch out! This kelp crab is waiting for a chance to grab you! (On a piling under the wharf.) New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/shap... #VancouverIsland #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #Crabs #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
A rocky intertidal zone covered in blue mussels and a single red sea star. Clallam Bay in the distance.
It’s #TidesOutTuesday, a great day to show off my mussels on the beach. #SalishSea #marinelife #marineinvertebrates
Silver-shelled with yellow edges gooseneck barnacles affixed to a bright blue float that sat on the sea surface for a year. They are large and aptly named. A large cluster or hundreds of organisms surround the underside of the float, this photo only shows a small portion.
Gooseneck barnacles letting us take a peek at what's #inside.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin #sailorlife #marineinvertebrates #crustacean
❗️New Articles from JCB 🦞
The latest research on crustaceans has just been added the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025).
📖 Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3
Happy reading! 🦀
📷 Corbari L.
#thecrustaceansociety #crustaceans #marineinvertebrates
Green anemone at low tide, surrounded by mussels with acorn barnacles growing on them and more anemones growing on the barnacles
Life on top of life on top of life. #SalishSea #pnw #marineinvertebrates #photography
A photo of a dead crustacean in ethanol. It is covered by small zooids
A close up of Triticella zooids. Thei have a long "stalk" and then you have the autozooid.
Today's cool museum collection discovery: Bryozoans growing on crustaceans!
I believe this ctenostome belongs to the genus Triticella, which is known to grow on specific groups of marine invertebrates 🦐
#bryozoa #nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
A photo of a flustra foliacea colony. It looks like a flat tree/plant with only a few branches
A close up image of flustra zooids. They are broadest in their distal part and they have small spines
I have come across some Flustra foliacea colonies when I've sorted through unidentified #bryozoa material🪸 Here you can see the colony form and a close up of the zooids
#nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
Pacific sea nettle swimming downward
Pacific sea nettle putting on a show #SalishSea #sealife #marinelife #underwater #MarineInvertebrates
JOB OPPORTUNITIES! Curator and Researcher in Marine Ichthyology and Marine Invertebrates (Ocean Museum Germany)
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Stones on a beach. Small to medium stones, bluish, grey, yellow. In the centre, a small crab whose colours match the stones.
Green shore crab, blending in among the stones. Little Bear Bay, Vancouver Island. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/08/ston... #VancouverIsland #Crabs #Invertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #MarineLife #Nature
Photo taken on May 12, 2021 with my NIKON D5200 using the NIKKOR C Auto 1:4.5 f=80~200mm (i) lens. Find more information at https://gommadigitale.com/photo/12-05-2021/992
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It looks like something with red eyes smiling at us. Deceptive! It's a crab; the eyes are on stalks, the "mustache" is antennae. The crab carapace is lumpy, with darker, reddish lumps on a paler base. And the legs and chelipeds (pincers) are covered with short, thick, dark brown spines, enough to hide the shape of said legs entirely. The "head" in centre front is actually the rostrum of this crab; a dual extension at the front of the carapace, with the eyes a bit further back. Background: broken shells make the floor; behind the crab is a dark rock, with patches of purple encrusting algae. Photo taken in an aquarium tank.
Yes, it's a crab. Phyllolithodes papillosus. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/07/lump... #VancouverIsland #Crabs #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #Wildlife #Nature #Camouflage
The lion's mane jelly, Cyanea capillata, is a large, red jellyfish, that may measure up to 2 metres across. This is a small specimen; the bell is about 10 cm. across. The bell is pink, shading to lilac; it will darken with age. The tentacles directly below the bell are deep red, while the long, trailing tentacles are white, translucent. The jelly swims in a circular, cold tank with a blue background. A curve off to the left is the edge of the tank, and gives the photo a look of outer space.
Lion's mane jelly, here for the summer in its own tank in the Discovery Passage (Collect and Release) Aquarium. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/07/amon... #VancouverIsland #Jellyfish #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #Wildlife #Nature #SaltwaterAquariums
🦐 New Research from the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦐
The latest update to Volume 45, Issue 2 (2025) of the JCB is out now featuring new articles on ecology, functional morphology, and paleobiology.
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📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#crustacea #marineinvertebrates
Have a video of a bryozoan colony vs. a caprellidae! Video was taken during one of our #NorDigBryo workshops 🤓
#Bryozoa #marineinvertebrates
A view from underneath a dock. Wooden pilings, black with creosote, green with algae, sprinkled with barnacles. Between the pilings, a ladder hangs down; a metal chain with rusty iron rungs. The lower rungs and chain are loaded with barnacles and a bit of green sea lettuce. A board on an angle also carries its load of barnacles and mussels. The water beneath reflects the surrounding colours: green, black, red, and silver.
Under the ferry dock. Rusty ladder, creosoted pilings, and stacks of barnacles. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/06/habi...
#VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #MarineLife #MarineInvertebrates #Nature
While exploring Ahyi Seamount, the team spotted this Diadema setosum #urchin nestled in an algae bed around 74 meters deep. These #marineinvertebrates are known for their extremely long, black, hollow spines interspersed with stinging, pincher-like pedicellariae.
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This macro underwater photo shows a delicate porcelain crab tucked into the ruffled folds of a sea pen, a soft-bodied colonial marine animal. The sea pen’s structure resembles a ribbed leaf or feather, with soft polyps along the edge. The crab’s flattened, pink-to-purple body is perfectly camouflaged among the sea pen’s ridges, with its large claws folded beneath it. Fine feather-like appendages near its mouth are faintly visible, used for filter feeding. The lighting brings out intricate details in the crab’s texture and the soft fur-like appearance of the sea pen’s polyps. Photographer credit: Gregory Rothman, 2025
After the last image, thought I’d show some of the upper end, high rise living. #PorcelainCrab #SeaPenCrab #UnderwaterMacro #MarineSymbiosis #CommensalCrab #UnderwaterPhotography #OceanCritters #MacroMarineLife #ScubaDiving #MarineInvertebrates #GregoryRothman #photography
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CORAL REEF NEWS: Enhancing How We Hear Health Of Coral Reefs
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#coralreefs #seascape #soundscape #underwaternoise #coral #ecology #marineinvertebrates #coralreefecology #biodiversity #marinebiology
An electron microscopy image of a bryozoan colony. The zooids have many spines, and some zooids have a spherical-looking ovicell.
A close p electron microscopy image of Callopora weslawski, showing the row of additional spines on the lateral wall right under the regular spines
Another cool find during our #NorDigBryo project: Callopora weslawski. It's an Arctic species and is characterized by a row of additional spines on the vertical wall/gymnocyst (second image)
#Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa #marineinvertebrates
