Any ideas what this is??

by **nugget** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:13 pm

I did a lot of exploring on the coast in Tasmania and i came across these weird jelly things im not sure what they are. anyone have an idea?? there were many jelly fish in the water though, bt i dont hink these are jelly fish because they didnt have anything visible. They were alll over the beach. Could they be a part of an organism that has come out? there were SO many!!

The second image i also dont know what they are they were tube like things u could see a bit indented in the sand. When u touch them they receded inwards and left a puddle of water, i tried to dig around it but it seemed like they were attatched to some kind of rock nderneath? we couldnt pull them out. Curiosity was killing us haha. Any ideas what they are? some sort of anemone perhaps?

Thanks!
I hope these work

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248 ... GP1390.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248 ... GP1391.jpg

by **sachin** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:10 pm

Not jelly fish... :shock:

by **nugget** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:52 pm

lol thanks! any thoughts about what it could be?

by **sachin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:07 am

http://www.beachcalifornia.com/californ ... yfish.html

This might help you.......

by **sachin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:10 am

I think These are jelly fishes only, their body have deformed in direction of force of wave....

by **nugget** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:20 am

Yeah i saw those jellyfish too, i know what they look like, thats what i thought at first too, but i turned them around and Sachin, i swear you cannot see anything else on them. They look like that all the way around. so so weird

by **sachin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:32 am

May be dead jelly fishes...

by **kjle** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:17 am

hmm, this has puzzled me too. We have many of these in our area on our local beaches. I hadn't thought much of it, I always assumed they were jellyfish, until I started to really learn about marine biology. I'll look into it if someone doesn't answer right away.

by **kjle** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:26 am

Oh btw your other "tube like things" I believe are Pachycerianthus fimbriatus. They are a tube dwelling anemone that live in mud and sand. They have brown/black tentacles that stick through.

I think this is what it is, though your picture is a little fuzzy, so I could very well be mistaken.

by **nugget** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:48 am

thanks for ur inputs, im sorry its fuzzy if only i had a macro lens!!

but i looked up that anemone and there were no tentacles that look like that, but then again i could be mistaken.

quite interesting though

by **sachin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:29 pm

Then It may be...........

Nugget stop it may be................ YUK....

by **kjle** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:02 pm

sachin_at_biog wrote:Then It may be...........

Nugget stop it may be................ YUK....

Not sure I quite understand, lol.

Any ideas what this is??

Any ideas what this is??

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