Sunday, July 27, 2014

Successful Friday Harbor Labs trip

Last week I visited Friday Harbor Labs to collect aplacophorans and chiton's for biomineralization studies. I managed to get about 10 specimens of a soon-to-be described species of Hypomenia and 3 specimens of a new Macellomenia we're working on describing (see pic below).

Macellomenia sp. "schanderi"

The Marine Invertebrate Zoology course shared an unusual mutant Tonicella line at a lacking the normal shell pigment pattern.

Tonicella lineata "blue albino"