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Family MertensiidaeObserver
ja_fieldsDescription
This undescribed cydippid/mertensiid sighting lines up with @cemills observation that they tend to appear around the surface waters around the San Juan Islands when there are two high tides with a very small dip between them. This one was found shortly past the first high tide in this type of series.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
laragibsonDescription
The tentacles were very purple in colour - seemed very different from a regular sea gooseberry.
Approximately 6-10 ft in depth
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Family MertensiidaeObserver
ja_fieldsDescription
Observed off FHL docks while nightlighting. Photographed in collection cup for clearer image. Two examples of species of mertensid ctenophore currently in the process of description by CE Mills
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Species currently being described by Claudia Mills, that I and a few others have been colloquially calling "the feather boa cydippid". Astounding night, caught 11 between the hours of 6:45 and 9:05pm.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Collected off FHL dock while nightlighting between 7:25 and 11:15 PM then photographed in lab. Using cydippida as a placeholder as this is a species currently being described by Claudia Mills.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
species currently being described by Claudia Mills. My friends and I colloquially call it "the feather boa cydippid." 1 of several observed that night nightlighting.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
species currently being described by Claudia Mills. My friends and I colloquially call it "the feather boa cydippid." 1 of 11 observed that night nightlighting. Don't have clear views of every individual so just uploading a few different ones for sense of frequency.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Species being described by Claudia Mills. Pink fluffy tentacles. Bright blue bioluminescence.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Species being described by Claudia Mills. Pink fluffy tentacles.
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Cydippids (Order Cydippida)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Undescribed species of mertensid ctenophore currently being described by Claudia Mills. I colloquially refer to it as the feather boa cydippid. Observed while nightlighting off a local dock - photographed in a little observation cup.
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Family MertensiidaeObserver
ja_fieldsDescription
Species of mertensid ctenophore currently being described by @cemills
