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Actually it's named for Lorena's scissors......

That Chrissy, collecting worms without me..... :(( ... (give her a hug from me, okay?) Interesting about the "swimming through sand". It's always been assumed that they build permanent burrows because dive guides can find them in the same spot night after night and simply because many...

Bobbitt? Are you guys going after those? I WANT ONE!!!! A BIG one in good condition so I can identify it. Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please...

Hi everyone--- Thanks for the great reception yesterday. My friends & I had a great time. Sorry I talked so long! As usual when I talk about inverts, I got over-enthusiastic & babbled on & on.... & on..... :8) Hope I didn't make the meeting run overtime too badly. About flatworms &...

That would be me ;-D

Don't worry about missing out. The real problem is trying to shut me up when I'm talking about inverts. :D

That would be great Richard assuming we have a scope/projector system. I think most people have never seen them up close & personal.

A dissecting scope? That would be very cool.

Hi everyone -- Just a reminder to post images of your hitch hikers or other inverts of interest in the Hitch Hikers thread http://www.bareefers.org/home/node/9798 My talk in October will focus on your critters, plus some tidbits on crabs, flatworms & of course polychaetes if there's time...

Hello again -- Just a reminder that if you have new hitch-hikers or pictures of inverts you're curious about post them in this thread. I'll be using your photos in my talk next month. I can blather on (and on and on) for hours about inverts so I'll restrict myself to your critters plus some...

Looks like you find the id for yourself. There are about 6,000 species with a variety of feeding strategies - detritivores, algae-eaters, micro-grazers, plankton feeders, filter feeders, scavengers, predators. A few - few enough that you don't have to worry about it - are parasitic on other...

Hi guys, Did ya miss me? :) John PM'ed me to take a look at his worm (post #69). Take a look at Ibn's post #32 in this thread -- does that look similar? It's a type of flatworm but probably not a polyclad. At that size it's likely to be a micro-grazer or pod hunter. JAR - the...

Partner gobies only pair up with certain alpheid (snapping) shrimp, not with cleaners.

:beer: Back at ya Gresh!

Pictures are essential. Those descriptions are way too vague to make any kind of educated guess as to what the crabs are. Ya gotta remember that there are thousands of possibilities. I know reefers use "hairy", "black-tipped claws", and "pointed claws" as synonyms for bad. That's a...

Gresh, you've got to stop putting "Dr" in front of my name. Next thing you know people will be asking me to look at odd rashes, want advice on warts, bring out body parts I just don't want to look at! Besides, it just ain't true. :D Everyone who said flatworm pat yourself on the back...

Doh, they all eat stuff, it's what they eat that's important! :D It would be more accurate to say you have asterinid stars. There are 26 genera in the family Asterinidae and multiple species. Many of the large species can only be identified by specialists and these little guys are even...

Thanks all for the best wishes. Fingers crossed here too! You can either buy a dedicated video that's only for the scope or patch one together using an adaptor for a regular video camera that fits into one of the eyepieces/phototube. Run the video feed to a projector and that's pretty much...

Me too, and the reason for the cancellation sucks...... :( I was just going to bring my stereoscope, a Leica MZ-12 with illuminated base and the phototube attachment. That way we could set up a video feed & project whatever under the scope so the whole group could see it.

Another time I hope. Oh yeah, you really gotta watch out for those sapiens, they're much more treacherous & parasite-ridden than any shark! ;) Sfork -- That's the proboscis of an echiuroid worm in the family Bonellidae. The plump, juicy body is tucked away in a burrow or rock crevice...