Maarakailet1 - Thanks, and see the comments below by Xenosyl (which were very helpful). In my experience, there's nothing quite like teaching an invert class to produce a heavy dose of humility!!
Ha! You said it. One student would bring me hamburgers if I would pull worms from his oyster bed sample. They are so hard to winkle out of their little tubes.
Xenosyl - Thanks a million for this input! We midlanders are truly envious of the coastal folks when it comes to inverts. On the other hand, given our situation, I'm convinced that the process (of trying the ID, etc.) is far more important than the results, for beginning students.
A lot of the kelp or other epifaunal species simply aren't going to be in the SB series. Most of the stations were soft bottom & the hard bottom ones were too deep for kelp.
Thank you very much. We usually work pretty hard at trying to ID these worms using the Santa Barbara ship channel keys, and I simply don't remember how successful we were on this one. Thanks again! - JJ
Really nice photography. It's in the family Syllidae, genus Eusyllis. A little tighter focus on the setae & I might have been able to tell you the species.
That is so cool. I had a class where we had to collect and key out polychaetes. I never was proficient enough to ID on sight.
maarakailet1 2 years ago
Maarakailet1 - Thanks, and see the comments below by Xenosyl (which were very helpful). In my experience, there's nothing quite like teaching an invert class to produce a heavy dose of humility!!
jjparasite 2 years ago
Ha! You said it. One student would bring me hamburgers if I would pull worms from his oyster bed sample. They are so hard to winkle out of their little tubes.
maarakailet1 2 years ago
Xenosyl - Thanks a million for this input! We midlanders are truly envious of the coastal folks when it comes to inverts. On the other hand, given our situation, I'm convinced that the process (of trying the ID, etc.) is far more important than the results, for beginning students.
jjparasite 2 years ago
A lot of the kelp or other epifaunal species simply aren't going to be in the SB series. Most of the stations were soft bottom & the hard bottom ones were too deep for kelp.
xenosyl 2 years ago
Thank you very much. We usually work pretty hard at trying to ID these worms using the Santa Barbara ship channel keys, and I simply don't remember how successful we were on this one. Thanks again! - JJ
jjparasite 2 years ago
Really nice photography. It's in the family Syllidae, genus Eusyllis. A little tighter focus on the setae & I might have been able to tell you the species.
xenosyl 2 years ago