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Okay. Who can identify this? It and many others were located at Pt. Lobos around 30-40 feet. It is brownish, very light, and usually roundish. It appears attached to the bottom.
Okay. Who can identify this? It and many others were located at Pt. Lobos around 30-40 feet. It is brownish, very light, and usually roundish. It appears attached to the bottom.
I've never seen anything like that. It kind of looks like a quasi-mini nurse shark but where are the eyes and other features? Strange....
I don't want to live on that kind of island
No I don't want to swim in a roped off sea
Too much for me, too much for me
I've got to be where the wind and the water are free.
I think they come out of the holes and seem to be mucus bags secreted by some critter. I asked the same question a few months ago on ba_diving but noone had a conclusive answer.
I showed the picture to one of the faculty members in the Marine Science Institute on campus here, and he identified it as a gelatinous egg mass of the polychaete Arenicola cristata
I showed the picture to one of the faculty members in the Marine Science Institute on campus here, and he identified it as a gelatinous egg mass of the polychaete Arenicola cristata
Thomas
Thanks, Thomas. I had to hunt for a while to find information to "translate" your scientic lingo. If anybody cares, the common name for the creature is the lugworm. Some additional info and pictures can be found at:
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Originally Posted by nkw5
