[Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia

[Steve Halford]

Three centimeters sounds too big for any local crustaceans.  Might it be
Japanese?  A lot of Japanese flotsam has come ashore since the Fukushima
earthquake.

Steve.

Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)
Museum Technician
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Fred Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca> wrote:

> 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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