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Wild-Woman Dame Commander of the Wild Empire Registered: February 2006 Location: North Kent Posts: 10,310	From a saline pool. What wonders from the deep! Shot not good but first on WAB and one not many get the chance to see. Water very murky.
	· Date: Tue May 13, 2008 · Views: 1673 · Filesize: 25.6kb, 290.6kb · Dimensions: 1024 x 661 ·
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Ian Gray

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Registered: December 2006
Location: coventry
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Tue May 13, 2008 2:02pm

nice one. That's an amazing looking creature, how big are they.

Ian.

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Wild-Woman

Dame Commander of the Wild Empire

Registered: February 2006
Location: North Kent
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Wed May 14, 2008 12:46am

Not very big. About 1.5 cm including the antennae. I have been reading up on their importance as a food source to estuary birds.

Like something out of Dr Who aren't they!

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Ian Gray

Commander of the Wild Empire

Registered: December 2006
Location: coventry
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Wed May 14, 2008 2:14pm

I read the same articles when trying to find out more about them after veiwing your photo. I couldn't find much info on the creature itself. Do you know what it would be classed as?

Ian

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Wild-Woman

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Location: North Kent
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Fri May 16, 2008 11:53am

I can indeed. It's from the order Amphipoda. A small Crustacean.

They live in vertical burrows in the mud.

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The Woodman

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Registered: December 2006
Location: Cumbria, on the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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Thu July 19, 2012 8:18am

These are the most numerous invert in Morecambe Bay estimated to be up to one million per square metre. They live in small but relatively deep burrows in the sub littoral zone. As the tide ebbs off spidery tracks to and from the burrow entrance can be seen. They regularly cast their exoskeleton and millions can be found washed up in great broad belts of flotsam. Waders and flounders are the main consumer of this important food supply.

I've just seen you image W-W and cannot resist commenting! Something so apparently insignificant with a major place in the scheme of things.

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