Summer photos: 1

I have a backlog of photos from collecting trips that I have been meaning to post and talk about. This month seems like a good time to do it, while I'm madly trying to finish experiments before school starts again (and simultaneously preparing for the fall semester). Few words, many pictures.

From a May collecting trip:

Fucus sp., a brown alga (rockweed), covered with the egg capsules of Ilyanassa obseleta, the mud snail. Each egg capsule is filled with developing embryos that will hatch into planktonic veligers.

A moon snail egg case (the sand collar) also covered with I. obsoleta egg capsules.