Dhugal talking about Phronima eyeball facts. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 388 #ozoceans2020 #visioningcoralsea #MarineLife
March 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Dhugal talking about Phronima eyeball facts. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 388 #ozoceans2020 #visioningcoralsea #MarineLife
Phronima are on the top of the most-metal-sea-creatures list. Had no idea finding them on a beach was a thing that happened. Wild.
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
December 6, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Phronima are on the top of the most-metal-sea-creatures list. Had no idea finding them on a beach was a thing that happened. Wild.
Phronima with salp nursery full of eggs. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
February 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Phronima with salp nursery full of eggs. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
I miss you Mira Phronima
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I miss you Mira Phronima
PHRONIMA! DOOOP do duh dooo! PHRONIMA! DOOOP do duh dooo!
#PoetryInOcean: “I speak of underneathedness...
I speak for the damselfly, water skeet, mollusk,
the caterpillar, the beetle, the spider, the ant.
I speak from a time before spinelessness was frowned upon.”
Camille T. Dungy’s poetry seemed a lovely way to celebrate tiny marvels in the midwater.
I speak for the damselfly, water skeet, mollusk,
the caterpillar, the beetle, the spider, the ant.
I speak from a time before spinelessness was frowned upon.”
Camille T. Dungy’s poetry seemed a lovely way to celebrate tiny marvels in the midwater.
April 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
PHRONIMA! DOOOP do duh dooo! PHRONIMA! DOOOP do duh dooo!
Ummm, who was going to tell me that Phronima eat Beroe abyssicola and that when they do they and all their little babies turn pink??
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
October 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Phronima (with babies)
November 26, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Phronima (with babies)
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Still my favourite strand line discovery to date - a female Phronima sedentaria (‘monster in a barrel’) - Isles of Scilly, October 2023!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young 👽
#MarineLife 🦑 #ukwildlife
A Phronima, pelagic amphipod. Living in the carcass of a carved-out salp with her babies
April 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A Phronima, pelagic amphipod. Living in the carcass of a carved-out salp with her babies
August 4, 2024 at 4:55 AM
Et quelques espèces planctoniques du jour collectée par #DIVE-Sea :
Un hydrozoaire (Corymorpha nutans)
Un tunicier (Doliolum denticulatum)
Un gastéropode (Cavolinia inflexa)
Un amphipode (Phronima atlantica)
@atlasea.bsky.social
@mnhn.fr
@univ-amu.fr #MIO
Un hydrozoaire (Corymorpha nutans)
Un tunicier (Doliolum denticulatum)
Un gastéropode (Cavolinia inflexa)
Un amphipode (Phronima atlantica)
@atlasea.bsky.social
@mnhn.fr
@univ-amu.fr #MIO
April 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Et quelques espèces planctoniques du jour collectée par #DIVE-Sea :
Un hydrozoaire (Corymorpha nutans)
Un tunicier (Doliolum denticulatum)
Un gastéropode (Cavolinia inflexa)
Un amphipode (Phronima atlantica)
@atlasea.bsky.social
@mnhn.fr
@univ-amu.fr #MIO
Un hydrozoaire (Corymorpha nutans)
Un tunicier (Doliolum denticulatum)
Un gastéropode (Cavolinia inflexa)
Un amphipode (Phronima atlantica)
@atlasea.bsky.social
@mnhn.fr
@univ-amu.fr #MIO
I miss you so much Mira Phronima they would never let you on social media you'd be canceled immediately
May 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I miss you so much Mira Phronima they would never let you on social media you'd be canceled immediately
Ummm, who was going to tell me that Phronima eat Beroe abyssicola and that when they do they and all their little babies turn pink??
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
June 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Ummm, who was going to tell me that Phronima eat Beroe abyssicola and that when they do they and all their little babies turn pink??
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
Photo from today when I learned that from putting them in a kreisel together.
🦑🐙
Phronima my beloved. She's such a beautiful little weirdo.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 905 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 905 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
April 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Phronima my beloved. She's such a beautiful little weirdo.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 905 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 905 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
Beast in the barrel/Phronima sedentria
We found these magnificently weird creatures washed up on St. Ninians beach tombolo over the holidays.
It's an amphipod crustacean living in a salp barrel. A very cool beach combing find!
#Shetland #BeachCombing #PhronimaSedentria #Beach #Salp #Crustacean
We found these magnificently weird creatures washed up on St. Ninians beach tombolo over the holidays.
It's an amphipod crustacean living in a salp barrel. A very cool beach combing find!
#Shetland #BeachCombing #PhronimaSedentria #Beach #Salp #Crustacean
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Beast in the barrel/Phronima sedentria
We found these magnificently weird creatures washed up on St. Ninians beach tombolo over the holidays.
It's an amphipod crustacean living in a salp barrel. A very cool beach combing find!
#Shetland #BeachCombing #PhronimaSedentria #Beach #Salp #Crustacean
We found these magnificently weird creatures washed up on St. Ninians beach tombolo over the holidays.
It's an amphipod crustacean living in a salp barrel. A very cool beach combing find!
#Shetland #BeachCombing #PhronimaSedentria #Beach #Salp #Crustacean
Whoa. Nice shot with HUNDREDS of babies! Phronima and her hatchlings! in a dead salp's body for food! #mothersday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Genus Phronima
Phronima from Rocky Bay on February 2, 2025 at 07:01 PM by Luca Davenport-Thomas. So cool to see again finally. Just one in the plankton. Or a hundred if you count the hatchlings.
www.inaturalist.org
May 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Whoa. Nice shot with HUNDREDS of babies! Phronima and her hatchlings! in a dead salp's body for food! #mothersday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
You ever make a million tiny mistakes in your life and they all crash in at once? …I’m sure she can’t relate. Ft; A nightmare, hosted by Ms Mira Phronima. Enjoy!
May 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
You ever make a million tiny mistakes in your life and they all crash in at once? …I’m sure she can’t relate. Ft; A nightmare, hosted by Ms Mira Phronima. Enjoy!
Freaky fishies & other gooey things from 15-17May2024.
1 & 2) two different species of #dragonfish
3) #anglerfish
4) male #nautilus #octopus riding a salp
5) #phronima in a #salp
6) #scaleworm
7) #whalefish
#larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
1 & 2) two different species of #dragonfish
3) #anglerfish
4) male #nautilus #octopus riding a salp
5) #phronima in a #salp
6) #scaleworm
7) #whalefish
#larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
September 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Freaky fishies & other gooey things from 15-17May2024.
1 & 2) two different species of #dragonfish
3) #anglerfish
4) male #nautilus #octopus riding a salp
5) #phronima in a #salp
6) #scaleworm
7) #whalefish
#larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
1 & 2) two different species of #dragonfish
3) #anglerfish
4) male #nautilus #octopus riding a salp
5) #phronima in a #salp
6) #scaleworm
7) #whalefish
#larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
The Spring blooms are here in the Salish Sea along with some unexpected visitors. Last week I found found:
A Phronima
A baby Gonatus onyx*
Hormiphora californensis
Tons of Beroe comb jellies
Several Solmundaegina nematophora
+ lots of other jellies, ctenos, baby fish, and other critters
🦑🐙🌿
A Phronima
A baby Gonatus onyx*
Hormiphora californensis
Tons of Beroe comb jellies
Several Solmundaegina nematophora
+ lots of other jellies, ctenos, baby fish, and other critters
🦑🐙🌿
May 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Spring blooms are here in the Salish Sea along with some unexpected visitors. Last week I found found:
A Phronima
A baby Gonatus onyx*
Hormiphora californensis
Tons of Beroe comb jellies
Several Solmundaegina nematophora
+ lots of other jellies, ctenos, baby fish, and other critters
🦑🐙🌿
A Phronima
A baby Gonatus onyx*
Hormiphora californensis
Tons of Beroe comb jellies
Several Solmundaegina nematophora
+ lots of other jellies, ctenos, baby fish, and other critters
🦑🐙🌿
So many phronima! Lively spot from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 902 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
April 18, 2026 at 1:17 AM
So many phronima! Lively spot from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 902 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
More cool beachcombing finds on Vatersay today including several Phronima, famously said to be the inspiration for the creature in the Ridley Scott movie "Alien". #beachcombing
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
More cool beachcombing finds on Vatersay today including several Phronima, famously said to be the inspiration for the creature in the Ridley Scott movie "Alien". #beachcombing
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Capricorn - Barrel amphipod (Phronima sedentaria)
With their resilience, dedication, and patience, they never crack under pressure!
With their resilience, dedication, and patience, they never crack under pressure!
March 13, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Capricorn - Barrel amphipod (Phronima sedentaria)
With their resilience, dedication, and patience, they never crack under pressure!
With their resilience, dedication, and patience, they never crack under pressure!
If my photo containers weren’t locked up for the night where I can’t get them, I’d be trying not to bounce up and down while taking better photos of this Phronima I found tonight. It even is brooding babies!
🦑🐙🌿
🦑🐙🌿
July 18, 2024 at 8:01 AM
If my photo containers weren’t locked up for the night where I can’t get them, I’d be trying not to bounce up and down while taking better photos of this Phronima I found tonight. It even is brooding babies!
🦑🐙🌿
🦑🐙🌿
They're also an ecosystem unto themselves, like this Phronima parasitoid amphipod that hollows out salps to be home & nursery for their eggs.
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
August 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
They're also an ecosystem unto themselves, like this Phronima parasitoid amphipod that hollows out salps to be home & nursery for their eggs.
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)
Fish use them as a sheltered form of transparent, riding along as they cycle from surface feeding at night to deeper waters during the day.
(📷: Scott Reid)