Unfavorable Topography: 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006

Monday, July 31, 2006

Monday, July 24, 2006

In hopes of bringing the sea back to life:

Helicocranchia

The large funnel is present in the paralarva and makes generic identification of paralarvae easy. There is a near absence of an optic stalk making the eyes nearly sessile. With increased age and depth of occurrance, some species, at least, become bright red in color.


And my favorite photograph (in red):