Mary,
Thanks for having the photos posted and giving the link!  These are very
good photos and extremely interesting.
Karlynn
NC - USA

Mary Canada wrote:
> While walking the beach at Juno Beach, Florida last week, I found
> multiple egg casings from /Janthina/'s washed ashore and caught in the
> wrack line. The wrack line was composed of manatee grass (/Syringodium
> filiforme/) rather than sargassum which is typically found on our
> beaches. I was told that the manatee grass will float when it washes
> into the ocean, so it's possible that the grass caught the egg cases
> while they were on the ocean rather than the cases washing ashore on
> their own. Paul Mikkelsen graciously photographed the initial egg
> cases that were found and arranged for those found on the following
> day to be photographed (at a greater magnification) by Maggie Northrup
> of Ecological Associates, Inc. (EAI)
> <http://www.ecological-associates.com/>
>
> If interested in viewing the resulting photos, they are located at:
> http://www.paulmikkelsen.com/mollusca/Janthina/
>
> Mary Canada
>
> P.S. No shells were found on the beach!

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