New year, new contract.
Tis only a short contract, sorting the fauna from sediment samples taken from around the surf reef area in Boscombe, next to sod all in them, but a few things have been "worthy"...
Starting with the least fugly...an amphipod, couple of mm big...
![](http://www.zpyder.co.uk/reef/amphipod.jpg)
Some molluscs of some variety, about 0.5 - 1mm big each
![](http://www.zpyder.co.uk/reef/minimolluscs.jpg)
Straying into the fugly realm, a polychaete worm with some of its guts extended I think...
![](http://www.zpyder.co.uk/reef/worm.jpg)
And now going into the realm of nuke from orbit, a Pycnogonid, or Sea Spider. Not IDd the species yet but theres a slight chance of it being rare, in which case it poses an interesting question for the permission for this artificial surf reef theyve put on top of the site...
![](http://www.zpyder.co.uk/reef/seaspider_top.jpg)
Its only got 3 legs left sadly, so its a bit hard to make out, but these things freak me out almost as much as ticks and mites...