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For those that don’t know what I was talking about with phaeodarians, radiolarians and foraminifera. Here are a couple pictures. The first is what I mistakenly thought was a radiolarian but is actually a phaeodarian. The other is a foraminifera. Dive 897 #LivingBioreactors @schmidtocean.bsky.social

Also forgive a couple of the odd words in there… I was using dictation and it and I were not on the same page apparently 😂

3/ Since rarely do we get dives shallow more than 300 m.
Also going down the rabbit hole I learned that foraminifera are also protists but that they differ from phaeodarians and that their skeleton is calcium carbonate instead of silica.

2/ didn’t realize there was taxonomic changes and still used the old name. We see that happening a lot with other tech economic specialties as well as as we watch the dives. So it’s pretty safe to assume that most everything we are seeing are not radiolarians, but rather phaeodarian? …

1/ I saw the reclassification in 2004, so that’s why I was making sure that the taxonomy handbook I was looking that was from after that, and it was 2017. It really is a rabbit hole! And I kind of wondered if it wasn’t something like that with scientist who don’t specialize in the area….

4/ i’m not sure I would see just on ROV camera. Because they’re so small I don’t think I could see a phaeodium? Or tell the difference in the density of the silica skeleton.
I’m someone who’s super into learning more about the ocean and making sure I have my facts in my notes all straight. Mahalo!

3/ deeper than 300 m would be phaeodarian? I know there’s a Nautilus video of a protist from two years ago in PRIMNM that they have labeled radiolarian (tuscuridium) but at that depth would it actually be a phaeodarian? Some of the differentiating things between the two other than depth,…

2/ even heard of them before. I found some information including the second edition handbook of the Protists from 2017 that says a lot of the difference is the depths at which they are found. Are there certain species of radiolarians that go deeper than 300 m? Or is it a safe assumption that….

@cadurkin.bsky.social Aloha! I have questions. (sorry I couldn’t send a DM) I believe you are the protist person on the SOI expedition. So I’ve started going down this rabbit hole of radiolarian vs phaeodarian, trying to understand the difference. Prior to your saying phaeodarian, I’ve never …. 1/

Wouldn’t want you coded any other way. We love our Lisa not-a-bot

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Any idea on Fred the fish? Lol and yes I am this far behind

That would be nice. They were such great shots. Mahalo!

Same. Hard for me to differentiate in Spanish

Have you ever heard what kind of shark this was?

Happy International Squid Day!

Happy International Squid Day!

Happy Nautilus Night!

Credit for reel @oceana.bsky.social

Happy World Octopus Day!

I know I have put a bunch up. Last one!

Happy World Octopus Day!

Happy World Octopus Day!

Happy World Octopus Day!

(I wasn’t kidding when I said I had a ton of octopus photos for OCTOber) 😆

Happy World Octopus Day!

Happy World Octopus Day!

I have no shortage of octopus pictures to share today. Octopus and amazing, beautiful, and so very smart. Thank you to @schmidtocean.bsky.social @nautiluslive.org
@oceannetworks.ca
@nepdep_ for taking us along on your journeys as we have seen these amazing animals!

#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. Final shot for the dive. A beautiful opisthoteuthis flapjack octopus. 🥰 #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration

#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. Tanner crab, sea star with a beautiful zoom, and this weird gastropod… had amphipods, weird clear blobs and an anemone on it, but no idea what type of gastropod. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration

#NEPDEP South Winona Ridge off the Canadian Pacific coast. Dive Y00043. That anemone it’s just so pretty and with a zoom, “resting fish face” thornyhead, and an eel pout with a corallimorph. #PacificOcean #DeepSeaCreatures #DeepSea #OceanExploration

Flashback to PE in elementary school

The electric slide