Mick's Marine Life: Codium fragile

15 November 2024

Elysia viridis - Green elysia - Groene wierslak

Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)

Green elysia - Groene wierslak

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen A, L: 80 mm, 10-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen A, 10-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen B, L: 47 mm, 11-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen C, L: 70 mm, 11-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen C, 11-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo detail specimen C, 11-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimen A (middle), specimen C (bottom) and specimen D (top), 10-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimens A to D, 10-11-2024.

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo specimens C and D, 10-11-2024.

Dreischor - Gemaal, the Netherlands, 28-6-2022. At right Bryopsis hypnoides (Variously branched mossy feather weed - Onregelmatig vederwier).

Grevelingendam - Midden, the Netherlands, 1-11-2012. Specimen on Codium fragile (Felt-alga, Viltwier).

Dreischor - Kokrif, the Netherlands, 29-4-2020.

Meerzicht, Grevelingenmeer, the Netherlands, 12-11-2013.

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 23-12-2019. Specimens feeding on Agardhiella subulata (Stijf priemwier).

Scharendijke, the Netherlands, 14-12-2015. Specimens feeding on Codium fragile (Felt-alga, Viltwier).

Anna Jacobapolder, the Netherlands, 18-5-2015. Specimens on Desmarestia viridis (Desmarest's green weed - Azijnwier), but probably feeding on a left over of Bryopsis spec..

Wemeldinge - Steldijk Getijdenbakken, the Netherlands, 9-11-2024. In vitro photo egg-string, 28 mm wide, deposited on Fucus vesiculosus (Bladder wrack - Blaaswier), 11-11-2024.

29 January 2021

Hemigrapsus takanoi - Brush-clawed shore crab - Penseelkrab

Hemigrapsus takanoi Asakura & Watanabe, 2005

Brush-clawed shore crab - Penseelkrab

Sint-Annaland, the Netherlands, 19-3-2019. Male.

Zoetersbout, the Netherlands, 23-4-2014. Male crab eating Cyanea lamarckii (Blue lion's mane - Blauwe haarkwal).

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 15-11-2016. Male.

Anna Jacobapolder, the Netherlands, 18-8-2020. Male.

Den Osse-Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 29-1-2021. Male cleaning its claw.

Dreischor - Kokrif, the Netherlands. 21-2-2015. Male.

't Koepeltje, the Netherlands, 25-6-2019. With epitoke Nereis species.

Stavenisse - Oostnol-Keetenweg, the Netherlands, 4-2-2022. In vitro photo specimen A, female, carapace width 18 mm, 6-2-2022.

Dreischor - Kokrif, the Netherlands, 6-2-2014. Three male specimens.

Scharendijke, the Netherlands, 15-12-2016.

Stavenisse - Veerweg, the Netherlands, 30-11-2011.

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 7-8-2018. Juvenile male in Codium fragile (Felt-alga - Viltwier).

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 7-8-2018. Juvenile female hiding in empty Ostrea edulis gigas (Edible oyster - Platte oester) lined with Botrylloides diegensis or violaceus (soort Slingerzakpijp).

Dreischor - Kokrif, the Netherlands, 18-1-2021. Juvenile.

Watervalletje, the Netherlands, 9-10-2017. Moulting female.

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 9-6-2017. Two male crabs fighting.

Den Osse - Nieuwe Kerkweg, the Netherlands, 22-11-2016. Male crab fighting Carcinus maenas (Shore crab - Strandkrab).