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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Posted on: March 16, 2007 5:33 AM, by CR McClain

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A Scottish Sea Spider without kilt (from the Metro.co.uk) from the Rockall Trough off NW Scotland.

 

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At first I was just admiring the several different species cnidarian, one of which is probably a corallimorpharian.

Then I noticed the slipper limpet sitting on the proboscis of the pycnogonid. I kind of chuckled to myself, "oh those silly limpets" as I often do.

It was at that moment I realized the pycnogonid had 2 different sizes of legs. A closer examination revealed that there were 16 visible legs and two probosci at right angles to each.

So what you have in that picture is a small pycnogonid on top of a large one. God only knows they are doing in that position!

Posted by: Kevin Zelnio | March 17, 2007 7:22 AM

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