Oh come on Nomads....doesnt everybody know what these guys are? I'll give you a hint....they live on Cryptolepus rhachianecti....sheesh, if that isnt
a dead giveaway....
and they bite!KaceyJ - 2-18-2012 at 08:01 AM
looks like a bad case of galloping dandruff to meRuss - 2-18-2012 at 08:25 AM
I cheated:
Cryptolepus rhachianecti is the barnacle indigenous to gray whales and often houses many cyamid lice which spawn onto the calves with physical
contact. These encrustations are most concentrated around the head, flukes and fins with mature animals carrying several hundred pounds of them.
Occasional, large, deep gashes along the back result from ships hitting them and many animals have several propeller cuts (particularly friendly
whales and their calves).
BajaRat - 2-18-2012 at 08:30 AM
Careful Shari!!!!!
Those are sea scorpions! Seek medical attention immediately! Skipjack Joe - 2-18-2012 at 08:46 AM
Excellent, Russ !!shari - 2-18-2012 at 08:59 AM
smarty pants Russ.....you win the prize.
pretty amazing little guys...these were on a piece of whale skin.
[Edited on 2-18-2012 by shari]dtbushpilot - 2-18-2012 at 09:17 AM
You can get a shampoo and a special comb at the pharmacy that will get rid of them......Russ - 2-18-2012 at 11:47 AM
Photo and motivation to cheat by Shari
[Edited on 2-18-2012 by Russ]
critters
captkw - 2-18-2012 at 11:52 AM
they look like sand crab's,,a very good shore bait !!Bajamatic - 2-18-2012 at 01:16 PM
They look like baby scorpsvgabndo - 2-18-2012 at 03:30 PM
I wasn't willing to get that close to a valve that can hold out 5000 feet of water pressure!
Here's where they live.
vgabndo - 2-18-2012 at 04:05 PM
You know Russ ...I think you could have said. "Shari is an expert on this subject, we don't have many of those here in opinion-land. Here's a URL for
her work that I found."
[Edited on 2-18-2012 by vgabndo]Russ - 2-18-2012 at 04:08 PM
Motive was I hadn't a clue what they were so I googled it and copied a small part of an article I read. I don't remember signing up for you Whale Book
but next time I'm in BA I'll try to get one to add to my small library.Woooosh - 2-18-2012 at 04:11 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by captkw
they look like sand crab's,,a very good shore bait !!
Yea, I'm going with sand crabs too. Put a shovel in the wet beach sand at the surfline and there will be thousands. The Capt is right- they are used
for bait for shore fishing. They must be a good source of roughage and protein as my Labradors are addicted to them. When the sand crabs are being
washed-up in the surf it's like a Red Lobster buffet for them the whole walk.vgabndo - 2-18-2012 at 04:14 PM
Shari, I took a piece of skin and scanned it. The surface is covered with "pores" that look like little craters with an impact dome in the middle
sticking up. Can it be possible that the cells here are so large that I am seeing a nucleus in the center of these desiccated pieces of connected
craters?
Do huge animals have huge cells?
Here is something...in the upper left see the bumps? On the dark side is skin without the surface layer removed.
By "removed" I mean worn away. This is gray whale chapped lips.
[Edited on 2-18-2012 by vgabndo]
vgabndo - 2-18-2012 at 04:35 PM
Here's scale.
shari - 2-18-2012 at 04:55 PM
wow Perry....that is really cool...i dont have a clue...but they do slough of layers of skin often.
the cyamid lice die very quickly...within a couple hours of being off their host and they are very fragile and doubt they would work for bait for
shorefishing.vgabndo - 2-18-2012 at 10:54 PM
Google says strike one. Big animals just have a lot more little cells than little animals.
Although these structures are just about .01 mm. that has to be lots of cells. Duh.BajaBlanca - 2-19-2012 at 06:30 PM
