What the heck are these???
#1
Posted 27 March 2009 - 12:47 PM
If they are a new species I submit the name Delugeus as a wave took me by surprise and came down on top of me just after the camera went off. Luckily, I only got soaked up to the waist.
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#2
Posted 27 March 2009 - 12:58 PM
I like your name better!
#3
Posted 27 March 2009 - 02:18 PM
They look like living versions of a fossil I learned about in college geology -- trilobytes?? Maybe they're a current relative.
I like your name better!
There you go spelling stuff again!!
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#4
Posted 27 March 2009 - 02:51 PM
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#5
Posted 27 March 2009 - 07:07 PM
They look like living versions of a fossil I learned about in college geology -- trilobytes?? Maybe they're a current relative.
I like your name better!
They're chitons, and, in fact, they are descendants of the trilobytes.
Rick
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#6
Posted 27 March 2009 - 07:12 PM
#7
Posted 27 March 2009 - 08:09 PM
They look like living versions of a fossil I learned about in college geology -- trilobytes??
Sounds like a new hard drive capacity for a PC!!!
Which end is up?
#8
Posted 27 March 2009 - 08:50 PM
Zach, do you have difficulty with spelling words of sesquipedalian propensity?
I need a DICTIONARY!!! (and maybe an ENCYCLOPEDIA!)
#9
Posted 28 March 2009 - 12:35 AM
#10
Posted 28 March 2009 - 01:22 AM
Zach, do you have difficulty with spelling words of sesquipedalian propensity?
I need a DICTIONARY!!! (and maybe an ENCYCLOPEDIA!)
I think my head hurts
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#11
Posted 29 March 2009 - 10:13 PM
I couldn't view the pics.. but wondered if that is what they were..They're chitons, and, in fact, they are descendants of the trilobytes.
Rick
A man must swallow a toad every morning if he wishes to be sure of finding nothing still more disgusting before the day is over.-Nicolas Chamfort
Have seen them in the waters of Puget Sound and in the waters of Utila..
They come in different color combinations.. but look enough alike that once you have spotted one.. you can find others.
The Pacific Northwest has one known as the Gumboot Chiton. looks nothing like the others.. looks like a big pink rubbery mass.
Edited by Cold_H2O, 29 March 2009 - 10:14 PM.
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#12
Posted 02 April 2009 - 04:37 PM
Rick is right. These are Fuzzy Chitons, Acamthopleura granulata, of the CLASS: Chitons, Amphineura, a member of the Mollusks family Phylum Mollusca. They are abundant throughout the Caribbean, but I have seen them in the Pacific as well. They are often used by natives as bait, and on some islands as food - Yummy!They're chitons, and, in fact, they are descendants of the trilobytes.
Rick
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#13
Posted 02 April 2009 - 04:51 PM
Rick is right. These are Fuzzy Chitons, Acamthopleura granulata, of the CLASS: Chitons, Amphineura, a member of the Mollusks family Phylum Mollusca. They are abundant throughout the Caribbean, but I have seen them in the Pacific as well. They are often used by natives as bait, and on some islands as food - Yummy!
EEEEWWWW…
#14
Posted 02 April 2009 - 05:06 PM
Rick is right. These are Fuzzy Chitons, Acamthopleura granulata, of the CLASS: Chitons, Amphineura, a member of the Mollusks family Phylum Mollusca. They are abundant throughout the Caribbean, but I have seen them in the Pacific as well. They are often used by natives as bait, and on some islands as food - Yummy!
EEEEWWWW…
I want to know how they taste boiled in beer and old bay then dunked in drawn butter!!
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#15
Posted 02 April 2009 - 06:06 PM
Sounds like a science project for Shadragon!Rick is right. These are Fuzzy Chitons, Acamthopleura granulata, of the CLASS: Chitons, Amphineura, a member of the Mollusks family Phylum Mollusca. They are abundant throughout the Caribbean, but I have seen them in the Pacific as well. They are often used by natives as bait, and on some islands as food - Yummy!
EEEEWWWW…
I want to know how they taste boiled in beer and old bay then dunked in drawn butter!!
"Good things come to those who wait." Heinz - 1980s
"Good things come to those who wait." Guinness - 1990s
"Good things come to those with weights." ScubaShafer - 2008
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