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We’ve got a mystery here.

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This white thing, Shirely’s going, “that is not a sponge.” That does not look like a sponge to me.

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What the heck is that?

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That’s fascinating.

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I think it looks like a benthic ctenophore in the genus Lyrocteis.

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Have you ever seen anything like that?

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No. I’ve never seen anything like that anywhere.

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We see lots of ctenophores in the water column. They look like little ovals.

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This is an interesting group of ctenophores which is adapted to live on the substrate.

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Wow.

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What do you think?

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Another one of these anemones, maybe?

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Or it’s a fish.

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Nudibranch.

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Or something completely different.

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Could it be a gastropod? Could it be a sea slug?

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But it’s definitely in the Molluska.

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I like that we spanned four different phyla there before we could narrow this one down.

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What is that?

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It’s an anemone.

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No, it’s not.

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It’s called Alicia. Really?

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Fantastic.