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14-03-2012, 12:36 PM
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Beach find
This is something I found back in February but haven't got round to trying to ID. This wasn't the only one, I saw three or four more.
Can anyone tell me what it is. Thanks  .
 
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14-03-2012, 01:07 PM
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What was the texture like? I'm thinking of small sponges. Black will know!
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This is something I found back in February but haven't got round to trying to ID. This wasn't the only one, I saw three or four more.
Can anyone tell me what it is. Thanks .
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14-03-2012, 01:29 PM
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What was the texture like? I'm thinking of small sponges. Black will know! |
It was rather squidgy and felt like jelly .
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15-03-2012, 09:51 AM
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They could be squid eggs. They are usually layed in a cluster attached to kelp or other substrate and the 'fingers' all hang out like a mop head. They do break up once detached from their holdfast. Occasionally you see lone long fingers washed up - usually more opaque than this - you could mistake them being the squidgy inner bits of a razorshell.
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15-03-2012, 01:31 PM
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I'd start looking in Sponges. Cephalopod eggs are (usually) a bit more translucent than the 'things' in the photos and distinctly seperate. The photos appear to be of a single 'lump' with 'fingers' and the texture looks somewhat grainy, not smooth. Cliona celata ( Boring Sponge ) often grows in clumps when it can't find a suitable substrate to bore into, but the problem with sponges is that you really need to examine them under a microscope to determine species.
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15-03-2012, 04:51 PM
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They could be squid eggs. They are usually layed in a cluster attached to kelp or other substrate and the 'fingers' all hang out like a mop head. They do break up once detached from their holdfast. Occasionally you see lone long fingers washed up - usually more opaque than this - you could mistake them being the squidgy inner bits of a razorshell.
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I'd start looking in Sponges. Cephalopod eggs are (usually) a bit more translucent than the 'things' in the photos and distinctly seperate. The photos appear to be of a single 'lump' with 'fingers' and the texture looks somewhat grainy, not smooth. Cliona celata ( Boring Sponge ) often grows in clumps when it can't find a suitable substrate to bore into, but the problem with sponges is that you really need to examine them under a microscope to determine species.
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Thanks guys, I think Black could be on to something with squid eggs.
You are right about them being grainy Chris, but I am pretty sure that was sand.
Take a look at this and see what you think?
swpotd333
There are some photo's on MarLIN too, but I think the above link image is more comparable to my image.
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16-03-2012, 10:24 AM
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As an aside - here's the damage to a piece of limestone by the Boring Sponge Cliona celata . Found by a mutual friend of Chris and me on Talacre Beach in Wales
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13-01-2013, 09:53 AM
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This is something I found back in February but haven't got round to trying to ID. This wasn't the only one, I saw three or four more.
Can anyone tell me what it is. Thanks .
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I have just been looking on waarneming.nl and have come across something which looks and awful lot like this a sponge like both Chris and Black suggested, it hasn't been verified but it is down as Haliclona oculata?
Here is the image on waarneming, do you think this is the same as mine?
Geweispons - Haliclona oculata 2013-01-12 | Waarneming.nl
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