[Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia

[Fred Schueler]

On 10/11/2013 11:22 AM, Jan Bosselaers wrote:
> Could it be an appendage of a crustacean? If the "stem" has no cellular structure in cross section, it seems doubtful that the specimen is of plant origin.

* that's the suggestion that's come in on private messages, and was my 
initial idea about it. The original observer is going out to compare it 
with the pleopods and gills of local Crustaceans.

thanks for all the replies,

fred.
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>> Taxacombers,
>>
>> A friend writes: "This has me completely stumped. I brought home some
>> eelgrass and sea lettuce from White Rock beach for my hermits. This
>> hairy spine-like thingy came along with it..."
>>
>> http://wanderinweeta.blogspot.ca/2013/10/this-has-me-completely-stumped.html
>>
>> ...some sort of filament-bearing appendage?
>>
>> fred.
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          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
          RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
   on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
    (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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