elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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This may possibly be my all time 2022 favourite photo. A skeleton shrimp (Caprellidae family) in silhouette. These aren’t shrimp at all, but amphipods!
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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Oh the colours in this photo! Another favourite from my dock fouling experience in Plymouth. I found this colonial sea squirt Botrylloides violaceus in several different colours at this location.
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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Another favourite from 2022. This is the potato crisp bryozoan (Pentapora foliacea), and it has its lophophores out for feeding (the little fluffy bits). Found whilst dock fouling in Plymouth.
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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I could post a million favourite photos of the plumose anemones (Metridium senile) I saw dock fouling in Plymouth this autumn. This was one of my top finds because it was so chonky!
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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I adore this image so much. I think it looks like a painting! Sea squirts from a marina in Suffolk. 2022 was the year I first went dock fouling. 😍
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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A stunning plumose anemone (Metridium senile) from Devon.
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elizabethbeston · @elizabethbeston
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I can’t wait to go dock fouling again. This colonial sea squirt Botrylloides diegensis was pretty special.
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