[Taxacom] Mystery Organisms

[Richard Pyle]

Hi Tony,

Yes, that seems to be the growing consensus (and in fairness, that was the
highest probability guess from our team as well).

Aloha,
Rich


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Anthony Gill <gill.anthony at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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