Jo
O'Keefe Copyright 2010. Photos may be used for educational purposes
only. Contact me with inquiries.
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Sponges found
at Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC, 01/31/07. The one
on the right is the red beard sponge, Microciona prolifera
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Sponges found
on Edisto Beach, SC, 01/19/07
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Sponges
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Excurrent pore,
oscula, of sponge found on 01/31/07
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Sea
Anemone
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Sea
Anemone
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Sea
Anemone
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Sea
Anemone
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Sea Anemone
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Sea Anemone
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Bunodosoma
cavernata, warty sea anemone, Sunset Beach, NC, 05/01/07
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Spider crab
on sea anemone
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Sea
onion anemone, probably Paranthus rapiformis, 11/17/06, Sunset
Beach, NC
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Sea
onion anemones, Paranthus rapiformis
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Sea
Anemone
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Sea
Anemone, Calliactis tricolor
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Australian
Spotted Jellyfish, an invasive, nonindigenous species, Sunset Beach,
NC, 10/26/07 -- approx. 29 inches wide. Each flip flop is 10 inches
wide
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Portuguese
Man-o'-War, Physalia physalis, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/26/07 --
approx. 17 inches wide. Flip flop is 10 inches wide
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A Siphonophore
called Porpita or "Blue Button." L top; R bottom; hundreds
were on Ocean Isle Beach & Sunset Beach after Hurricane Charley
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Cannonball
or Cabbage Head Jellyfish, Stomolophus meleagris
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Jellyfish
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Moon Jellyfish
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On February 17, 2010 I added a quart of ocean water to the small bucket in which I had ttwo Knobbed Whelks and a Lettered Olive. Moments later I noticed a tiny jellyfish about 1/4-inch wide pumping its way around. Unlike a Portuguese Man-of-war with many tentacles, this jelly has four pedalia. I made a 15-second video on the beach. The best view of the jellyfish is when it is swimming above the Lettered Olive. Wind was blowing the water rapidly. Here is the link for the first video: http://s1009.photobucket.com/albums/af220/jookeefe/?action=view¤t=100_0381.flv | |
At home I videotaped the little guy in a small pyrex bowl. By then he had slowed down. The water was murky. Finding him through my lens was difficult. Although longer, this video shows the jelly going up and down. Wait each time I zoomed in for the camera to refocus.. Here is the second link: http://s1009.photobucket.com/albums/af220/jookeefe/?action=view¤t=100_0384.flv | |
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Sea Whips --
soft corals; Atlantic Wing Oysters on Sea Whip on Left
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Polyp-covered
Barnacles, Conopea galeata, on Sea Whips
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Sea Whips found
on Edisto Beach, SC, 01/18/07
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Sea Pansies,
Renilla reniformis - a soft coral composed of one large polyp
covered with secondary polyps with a stalk called a peduncle
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Sea Pansies
in my salt water aquarium, with feeding polyps extended
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Bryozoan
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Hydroid, Halocordia
disticha
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Microscope
views of Star Coral, Astrangia danae
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Colonial Tunicate,
Eudistoma capsulatum, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/20/09
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Colonial tunicate,
Eudistoma hepaticum, sea liver, Sunset Beach, 11/04/06
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Large tunicate,
Eudistoma hepaticum, sea
liver, found right after Hurricane Ophelia; there were hundreds of them
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Colonial tunicate,
Eudistoma hepaticum, sea liver, found on Sunset
Beach on 11/14/06
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Colonial Tunicates,various
dried Eudistoma hepaticum and Aplidium stellatum
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Aplidium
stellatum, sea
pork
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Solitary Tunicates,
Styela plicata, called Sea Squirts with incurrent and excurrent
siphons
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Smooth Dogfish
Shark, Mustelus canis, Sunset Beach, NC, 3/17/08 -- 4 feet long
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Smooth Dogfish
Shark, Mustelus canis, Sunset Beach, NC, 3/22/08 -- 3 feet long
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Atlantic
Sharp-nosed Shark -- 2-ft. long
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Probably Southern
Stingray, Dasyatis americana
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Smooth Butterfly
Ray, Gymnura micrura, Sunset Beach, NC, 07/03/09
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Cownose Ray,
Rhinoptera bonasus, Sunset Beach, NC, 05/30/08
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Cownose Rays,
Rhinoptera bonasus, Sunset Beach, NC, 06/05/08
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Upside down
stingray
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Blue
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Striped Burrfish,
Chilomycterus schoepfi, found on Sunset Beach, 11/30/06; note:
the typical striped pattern has been bleached out on this carcass.
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Skate egg cases
-- referred to as Mermaids' purses
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Mollusks -- Visit these separate web pages: Gastropod Photos; Bivalve Photos; Microscope Gastropod Photos; Microscope Bivalve Photos |
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Octopus
vulgaris found on Thanksgiving
on Sunset Beach, 11/23/06
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Octopus
vulgaris, Sunset Beach,
12/05/04
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Octopus
vulgaris, Ocean Isle
Beach, 09/28/04
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Sea Hares,
genus Aplysia, Sunset
Beach, 06/06
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Mitch, Lisa,
Quinn, Braxton, and Davis Newman kindly shared these videos of a sea
hare filmed on Sunset Beach, NC, on 7/19/09. If you have difficulty
seeing them, try using Quick Time.
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Arthropods -- Visit the crab web page: Crab Photos.htm |
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Ghost Shrimp,
Callichirus major, female, Sunset Beach, NC, 04/10/10 -- sucked
up from a Ghost Shrimp hole using a yabbie pump
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Ghost Shrimp,probably
Callichirus major, found with the tip of its large claw poking
out of the sand, Sunset Beach, NC, 07/02/07. It was limp & soon
died. Ghost shrimp make hundreds of tiny holes near the ocean, connected
by underground tunnels. One can understand how they do that with claws
like this. The body of the shrimp, excluding the claw, was 5 inches
long. The large claw was 1.5 inches long, for a total "length"
of 6.5 inches. The photo directly above is the same claw photographed
nearly three years later.
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Thalassinid
Burrow
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Ghost
Shrimp waste pellets
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Probably both
mantis shrimp, extracted from Ghost Shrimp hole using yabbie pump, Sunset
Beach, NC, 04/10/10
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Peppermint
Shrimp, Lysmata
wurdimani, Sunset
Beach, NC, 07/03/09 -- found in seaweed and sea drift
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Skeleton
Shrimp -- Caprellid Amphipods, another species of amphipod, and an isopod
found in seaweed
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Balanus eburneus, bleached
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Possibly
Megabalanus coccopoma, an
invasive species of barnacle, surrounded by local barnacles and the
mussel
Brachidontes
exustus,
found on Edisto Island, SC, 01/19/07
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Possibly a
Megabalanus coccopoma barnacle (R), an
invasive species, and another acorn barnacle (L), possibly the ivory
barnacle, Balanus eburneus,
Wrightsville Beach, NC, 06/29/06
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Probably a
species of Balanus, probably either B. venustus or B. amphitrite,
Wrightsville Beach, NC, 06/29/06
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Live barnacles
photographed through microscope
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Live goose
barnacles that were next to the barnacles above, 06/29/06
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Polychaete
worms, Chaetopterus variopedatus,
called "mucous-bag
feeders"
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Decorated tube
worms, Diopatra cuprea, that have a leathery case between themselves
and the shells. Although they are polychaete worms, they are active
predators.
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Empty casings
of Polychaete worms,
Chaetopterus variopedatus,
05/09/06
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Lugworm egg
case, 05/09/06
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Nereidid
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Rubbery Bryozoan
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Bryozoan-encrusted
Tulip
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Bryozoan, Sunset
Beach, 11/04/06
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Questional
Egg Cases -- thin threads that broke upon touch and matched the sand
-- 06/28/06, Sunset Beach
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Sea Lettuce
-- 18" in diameter, stem at center
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Purple laver,
Porphyra, 04/06
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American Alligator,
Alligator mississippiensis, Oyster Bay Golf Course, Sunset Beach, NC,
3/31/08
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Dead Loggerhead
Sea Turtle
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