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 Something the sea washed ashore...
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| pwalter |
Posted on 13-11-2008 11:51
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Hi, sorry for posting something that's definetly not an arthropod, but I couldn't find any info about these things, not a clue even... The first thing is an about 30 cm diameter ?colony? of something... Not sponge, I think. I tought about calcarean algae, but they shouldn't be this huge. Any suggestions, please? Was found in Greece this summer, Paralia Katerini. pwalter attached the following image:  [167.84Kb] Edited by pwalter on 13-11-2008 11:52 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-11-2008 11:54
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Sponge fungus
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| pwalter |
Posted on 20-11-2008 18:57
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Thank You, but I don't know what you mean by sponge fungus... There's one living in forests, I think you ment some kind of slime mould? I think it's too big for that and the species that live in seawater are mainly parasites of algae, the Labirinthulomycota and Hyphochytridiomycota. Best regards, Walter PS: here's a closer view: pwalter attached the following image:  [107.19Kb] Edited by pwalter on 20-11-2008 19:01 |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 20-11-2008 19:00
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
And another thing from the sea (Greece), it was anchored to a rope. First I tought on Tunicate, but couldn't find any species on the net and in books that is black and lives there.
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 20-11-2008 22:15
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I think those little pink dots in the second picture look rather like eyes - I think this is an egg mass of some sort - fish or molluscs? The black thing looks a bit like a young seaweed - some sort of brown alga. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 21-11-2008 13:20
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Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Thank You Tony, brown alga seems to be a good idea for me, I'll try to look after the possible species. For the 'egg-mass': I'll give them a closer look, I have parts stored in alcohol. The whole thing was a single mass, but could be torn apart like you can do with a sponge. And it weighed more than 1 kg. So I don't think that any molluscs live there that can produce so much eggs. For fishes, it might be... Thank You very much for your help with these things  |
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