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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Shelby Thomas UR- Invertebrates Lab

The Bobs
Last week our lab team got to retrieve the bobs set out 4 weeks ago in the halifax river, in hopes of observing growth of invertebrates among the plates on the bob.



We successfully retrieved it without any problems ore anyone falling in the water! The bob had quite a bit of growth on it including visually recognizable barnacles. There was even small crabs and shrimp living on it. We took the plates off of the Bob and brought them to the lab to further observe the invertebrates living on them.



My Plate 
Each one of us had a plate to look over. My plate had several barnacles on it as well as discovering some of the other species on the plate including pelogic amphripods and eubranchipus vernalis (shrimps), as well as some bryazoans. It was quite interesting to see what life inhabited these plates in such a short time.


Balanus glandula (Barnacle) 
eubranchipus vernalis (Shrimp)
 

1 comment:

  1. Nice post but I'm still not seeing any answers to questions about your project. That is what this blog is all about.

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