At 7:59 PM -0500 15-11-2002, Ellen Bulger wrote:
>I saw a living fingerprint cyphoma (sorry, the Latin name escapes me just
>now) on a gorgonian growing inside a wreck 80 feet deep about 30 miles off
>the coast of North Carolina once. I did an underwater doubletake. Now that's
>one far-ranging veliger!
Blame the Gulf Stream for that one.
I found a very fresh minute articulated pteriid (Electroma sp?) in a
canyon dredging off Dunedin... fallen off a ship? Fluke spatfall
carried by the South Australian Current?
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Andrew Grebneff
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