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A starry flounder and a C-O sole

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featuring three Metacarcinus magister, some blue worms, shrimp, and a mysterious silver bottom-dweller. Oh yeah, I guess that's something I've learned so far, in Expedition 0: the eyes of shrimp are retro-reflective.

I was excited to have found a female M. magister with a massive load of eggs. This bodes well for the local dungy population. We (MaST) are going to be performing a population assessment of M. magister using larval specimens via light traps this year. A similar assessment was performed last year. Motherhood appears to be a encumbrance as this individual struggles across the desolate shelf in search of a place to rest and spawn.

If you've ever wondered what a gravid decapod looked like, you've come to the right place.

Later on, I discovered a crab trap. Not sure if it has been abandoned or not, but two dungies were hanging around outside of it, including an individual with the most vibrant purple color I've seen on this species. I saw the carapace of a Cancer productis in the substrate near the rope, but I'm not sure if that was a live individual or a carcass.

at 1:33 you can see a C-O Sole! Pleuronichthys coenosus! And before that, a brittle star that reacts to being stepped on by the M. Magister.

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