Vu lors d'un relevé de pétoncle du MPO-Québec / seen on a DFO-Quebec scallop survey.
Fishes and invertebrates sampled during the 2022 DFO multispecies survey in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait (NAFO Subarea 0). z = -393 m. MLI museum no. 12375
from shell hash.
The outer shell layer is mostly eroded, just a couple shells have some spiral ribbing left. (maybe the brown colour is just staining, but I found nothing similar that was not brown).
similar in shape to Skeneopsis planorbis but colour wrong.
collected from shell hash
Observed ovipositing into still-tight buds. Insect was collected and held in mesh bag for oviposition on Q rubra cultivar.
About 100m from a peaty bog area, underneath wood
CORDANA CRASSA Toth
COLLECTION DATA – AC 2456, on wet wood near pond (developed after 3 wks in a moist chamber)
DESCRIPTION - short conidiophores, conidia 18-20x10-11u, 1-septate, dark brown basal cell, light brown apical cell, obclavate (like a pear).
NOTES – There was some taxonomic confusion about the name. Ellis described Cordana boothii Ellis in 1976 (Ellis, 1976) and included Cordana crassa Toth in his book on More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes (1985). Later he illustrated and described Cordana crassa on Alnus wood in Microfungi on Land Plants (1997 new enlarged edition) with no mention of C. boothii. While the descriptions and illustrations seem remarkably similar he did not suggest that the two names were synonymous. In 2004 Lei Cai et al. (Lei Cai et al., 2004) proposed the synonymy as C. crassa Toth (=C. boothii M.B. Ellis) without further discussion. Cordana crassa Toth (Toth, 1975) predates the name C. boothii M.B. Ellis (Ellis, 1976) therefore the former is considered the correct name for this fungus.
Although the taxonomic situation seems to be resolved a recent key (Ling Qiu et al. 2021) described C. crassa as having unicoloured conidia. I would like to think that this was a misprint since the species clearly has versicoloured conidia (pale upper cell and dark brown basal cell.
This may represent the first report from N. America. MYCOPORTAL LISTS 0 COLLECTIONS AS C. CRASSA AND 3 COLLECTIONS (ALL FROM UK) AS C. BOOTHII
REFERENCES
Cai Lei ET AL. 2004. New species of Cordana and Spadicoides from decaying bamboo culms in China. Sydowia 56: 6-12.
Ellis More Dem Hyphos (1976)
ELLIS 1985 MICROFUNGI LAND PLANTS: CORDANA CRASSA ON ALNUS, CONIDIA WITH DARK BROWN BASAL CELL AND PALER APICAL CELL, 18-27X11-15U
LING QIU ET AL. 2021. Cordana sinensis sp nov from Southern China. Mycotaxon 136: 553-662.
Tóth (1975) Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 67:32; Ellis More Dem Hyphos (1976) described C. boothii as new but he later illustrated and described Cordana crassa on Alnus wood in Microfungi on Land Plants (1997 new enlarged edition). I assume he meant to include the former as a synonym of Toth's species.
Small, all white moon snail.
Deep umbilicus, unobscured by the callus.
Scale is millimeters, image 2 shows a similarly sized Euspira heros which has lots of colour and a partially obscured umbilicus.
Packing strap for scale, 15mm wide
I found this shell last year on a NYC beach. Assumed it was someone's Florida castoff because I've never seen this in NY. Posting it to find the species name so I can learn more about its regional distribution.
An oddball find for the Bronx. But twice as odd that I found two Arcidae this day. This fairly fresh valve was found on the sandy beach. The other one - a fossil - was found in the rocky area around the bend (observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146737157
Weirdly, I've also found a Turkey Wing in Rockaways, Queens (not listed on iNat), and a Mossy Ark on Carnarsie beach, Brooklyn (iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148204106
Observed through the kitchen window. Tried unsuccessfully to catch a duck.
Differs from Colus stimpsoni by the characteristic moderately deep revolving lines (although now worn); wider profile and smaller size. Historically, Colus islandicus has been found more often in NYC, while C. stimpsoni is more common in New England, according to Jacobson.
one thallus on large, downed trembing aspen in old, upland aspen/sugar maple stand
Observé lors d'un relevé de chalut à bâton pour les crevettes par MPO-Québec / Observed during shrimp beam trawl survey by DFO-Quebec.
Buccin observé lors d'un relevé par MPO-Québec / Whelk observed on a survey by DFO-Quebec. Source: https://obis.org/dataset/eae87607-a740-4f85-abf8-2af89764355b
Observé lors d'un relevé de chalut de fond par MPO-Québec / Observed during a bottom trawl survey by DFO-Quebec. 48 m.
Petite poule observed lors d'un relevé de chalut de fond par MPO-Québec / Spiny lumpsucker observed during a bottom trawl survey by DFO-Quebec.
Photographed at home
in sea foam or spume
Three views of the same individual.
6mm long
Collected from shell hash
Growing in open barrens habitat on a rock ridge in amongst cladonia spp.
All live.
Note colour morphs (probably periostracum), range from white to brown to almost black (lower right of image 2)
embedded in cement?? or silt? contemporary or fossil? found various times in the Rockaways.
The AI thinks this is termites.
I'm going with an encrusting ascidian.
This is hanging from a rock in the low intertidal.
Second image is closeup of the part attached to the rock. Structurally it looks the same as the free-hanging part, but it was easier to image where it was thinner.
N22-0136
Tist is one of 3 images and the master main one that has both camera all cell phone images
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137768104
Steves voucher
Spotted on the yard then it headed for the sweet ferns and climbed to the top before headed down again
Fairly certain. Post-Hurricane Fiona. Legspan about 2 cm.