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------=_Part_174655_18735072.1177360092861 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Someone on another forum pointed out this may be a "ragworm", reading the description on the link below seems to follow suit, including ferrtilizing eggs. http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Ragworms.html If anyone can confirm, deny or add to this, would be appreciated. - Peter On 4/23/07, Peter de Wit <peterdewit@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two of these were found in a tidal pool at Blomidon today (April 23rd). > Both were approx 20 to 30 centimeters long, though hard to gauge as they > tended not to straighten out. blue/green in colour. They were very activate, > constantly moving around however they didn't appear to be leaving the > immediate area, and they did not come too close to eachother. Both were > emitting a creamy substance from their backends, there was quite a bit of it > collected in the pool they were in, perhaps fertilizing eggs? no eggs were > seen. > > Photos (click "all sizes" for larger view) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470076637/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470061762/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470076853/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470061990/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470062062/ > > - Peter > ------=_Part_174655_18735072.1177360092861 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>Someone on another forum pointed out this may be a "ragworm", reading the description on the link below seems to follow suit, including ferrtilizing eggs.</div> <div> </div> <div>http://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/SpeciesPages/Ragworms.html</div> <div> </div> <div>If anyone can confirm, deny or add to this, would be appreciated.</div> <div> </div> <div>- Peter</div> <div><br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter de Wit</b> <peterdewit@gmail.com> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div>Two of these were found in a tidal pool at Blomidon today (April 23rd). Both were approx 20 to 30 centimeters long, though hard to gauge as they tended not to straighten out. blue/green in colour. They were very activate, constantly moving around however they didn't appear to be leaving the immediate area, and they did not come too close to eachother. Both were emitting a creamy substance from their backends, there was quite a bit of it collected in the pool they were in, perhaps fertilizing eggs? no eggs were seen. </div> <div> </div> <div>Photos (click "all sizes" for larger view)</div> <div> </div> <div>http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470076637/</div> <div>http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470061762/</div> <div>http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470076853/</div> <div>http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470061990/</div> <div>http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdewit/470062062/</div><span class="sg"> <div> </div> <div>- Peter</div></span></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_174655_18735072.1177360092861--
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