[Taxacom] Mystery Organisms

[Anthony Gill]

Foraminifera?


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>
wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers:
>
> We are on expedition in Pohnpei, conducting surveys of deep coral reefs.
>  We've been finding an unusual organism that is extremely abundant on the
> sea floor at depths of about 80-95 meters (more or less).  The collective
> wisdom of our team (with primary expertise in fishes and gorgonians) has
> come up with a best-guess taxonomic identification as "some kind of animal
> -- or maybe algae?"
>
> Photos and a brief description are available on the expedition blog:
> http://blog.bishopmuseum.org/research/?p=294
> (feel free to browse the rest of the blog as well!)
>
> All suggestions are welcome!  We return home tomorrow, and will have better
> access to microscopes, etc. as of next week.  If you know what it is, or
> have any suggestions, please feel free to comment on the blog site itself,
> reply to this taxacom post, or email me directly.
>
> Aloha,
> Rich
>
> Richard L. Pyle
> Bishop Museum
> _______________________________________________
> Taxacom Mailing List
> Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
> The Taxacom Archive back to 1992 may be searched at:
> http://taxacom.markmail.org
>
> Celebrating 27 years of Taxacom in 2014.
>



-- 
Dr Anthony C. Gill
Natural History Curator
A12 Macleay Museum
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia.

Ph. +61 02 9036 6499
Editorial Board, Species and Systematics:
http://www.ucpress.edu/series.php?ser=spsy