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Flatworm Merry Strikes Again


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Posted by Max Bottomtime on July 05, 2015 at 18:50:15:

Merry has a Masters degree in Science from ASU. Having a scientist for a dive buddy can be challenging. Yesterday she found a nudibranch that we have yet to identify. Today she found a flatworm that may be Cryptobiceros bajae but can be difficult to I.D. as they are a mimic species. Sometimes they look different than the one Merry found. I often have a lot of homework to do after diving with her. Why can't she find a starfish or garibaldi?

Aside from the flatworm the dive at Golf Ball Reef was uneventful. Fifteen feet visibility with 53° water and the usual critters were out and about. Berthella californica were laying eggs everywhere. Mating pairs of Doriopsilla albopunctata dotted many rocks. I tried to get a rainbow sea perch to hold still but it refused.

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Cryptobiceros bajae

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Seastarus saturdaynightfeveri

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Doriopsilla albopunctata

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Diaulula sandiegensis

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Rainbow sea perch, Hypsurus caryi

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Onespot fringehead, Neoclinus uninotatus

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Swell shark egg case

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Berthella californica eggs



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  • Funny! Deb Karimoto 09:47:11 07/06/15 (0)


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