[Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia

[Scott Redhead]

Does anyone know what baleen whale plate ends look like at this size? 
 
> From: halford at sfu.ca
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:51:40 -0700
> To: bckcdb at istar.ca
> CC: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia
> 
> 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.
> 
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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.
> > ====================================================
> >
> >
> > >> 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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