Odd fishes and Plankton
Plankton are microscopic organisms that form the base of the ocean, lake, and river food chains. There are two big categories: Phytoplankton which are the photosynthetic things, and the zooplankton, which are the things that eat the light using phytoplankton. I started drawing a few interesting types of zooplankton, and they are now in the pile (awaiting spoonflower push, but in cafepress, etc.):
- Two copepods so far. Copepods are crustaceans related distantly to shrimp.
- Calanus Copepod
- a deep water copepod
- Cyclopoida Copepod
- This one is very common in pond or ocean water, easily visible in a home microscpe.
- Another odd crustacean: Cystisoma Hyperiid
- Giant eyes and looks more like a cross between a fly and a shrimp
- A microscopic deep worm: Tomopteris Polychaete
- A sea slug we saw on a research trip to Panama City Beach a decade ago: a Nudibranch
- More will follow
Also added a fish that I like to catch in the Mississippi river on a fly rod: the Skipjack (Shad) Herring. Jumps like a tarpon, and is food for many large predatory fish.
Also will be adding more European saltwater fishes, and did add the John Dory (Zeus, St. Peters) Fish. It is definitely a time consuming draw, but worth it.
Tight lines, calm seas, and be careful with your eyepieces!
Bryce
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