Admittedly, one of the reasons I study marine invertebrate larvae is because I find them beautiful. I just have to share some of the amazing specimens we collected at HG-I. All photos were taken using a compound microscope at 50 - 100x magnification by myself and Johanna Weston.
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| We called this snail "black spot," but I think he's cuter than the ominous name suggests. |
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| Not actually sure who this is, but it's clearly an embryo in the act of dividing into multiple cells! |
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| A pluteus larva of the brittle star Ophiopholis aculeata |
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I kept calling these baby clams "tiny, stupid bivalves" because they're challenging to identify and it was 2 am. Turns out, Johanna made that the official morphotype name in our data sheet!
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| A cyprid larva of the barnacle Balanus balanus. |
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| Not sure what species this is, but we called it "embryo shiny." |
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