[Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia

Peter Rauch peterar at berkeley.edu
Sat Oct 12 13:09:02 CDT 2013


As Jim C used to say often,  Google (Images) is your friend.

Try searching images of  baleen plates. Scott's image seems to come close.

Peter


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Scott Redhead <basidium at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks - but I knew that - so what does the ultimate 3 cm tip of a baleen
> plate look like? What about a feather?  Just trying to be helpful.
>
> Scott
>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:38:51 -0400
> > From: bckcdb at istar.ca
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] completely stumped in southern British Columbia
> >
> > On 10/12/2013 10:33 AM, Scott Redhead wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what baleen whale plate ends look like at this size?
> >
> > * this object is 3cm in length...
> >
> > 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.
> > >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>>>>            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/
> > >>>>>            South Nation Basin Art & Science Book
> > >>>>>            http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm
> > >>>>>       RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
> > >>>>>     on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
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> > >>> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
> > >>> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
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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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