aquatic inverts

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channeled whelk + egg case

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fun fact the bigger one is female

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barnacles on sea glass

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lesbian holds horseshoe crab

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in order: baby j, hollyhock, and chud&chudette

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guys my bad i just did a horseshoe crab spawning season study im gonna pivot this blog to just posting any invertebrate i find in the field. many horseshoe crabs incoming

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giant river prawn (macrobrachium rosenbergii)

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hi guys been very busy with work but here’s a beadlet anemone (actinia equina) and some blue mussels (mytilus edulis) from the field last fall

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gold lip pearl oyster (pinctada maxima)

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bladder wrack (fucus vesiculosus)

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coquina clams (donax variabilis)

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eastern mud snail (ilyanassa obsoleta)

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rose lace coral (stylaster roseus)

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gloomy octopus (octopus tetricus)

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spiny lobster (panulirus argus)

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black longspine urchin (diadema antillarum)

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atlantic bristle worm (scolelepis squamata)