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    The tide pool, one of Prionitis' homes
    Some Prionitis chillin' in a tide pool
    Prionitis at home on a rock

    Prionitis, just where it like to be – underwater
    Close-up of Prionitis in its element
    Prionitis in the lab

    Prionitis in the lab 2
    Holdfast
    Holdfast, back view, with epiphyte

    Pinnate blades
    Cross section of thallus
    Carposporophytes imbedded in the gametophyte thallus

    Carpospores (each cell is a carpospore)
    Tetraspores (just underneath the surface of the blades)
    Tetraspores close-up, note cruciate division

    Young epiphyte
    More young epiphytes
    Hymenena attached to Prionitis

    Attachment close-up
    Hymenena covering Prionitis
    Hymenena in water...

    ...and out
    Close-up on Hymenena's beautiful blades
    Polysiphonia
    More Polysiphonia
    Microcladia overgrowing Prionitis (some Hymenena too)
    Microcladia

    Diatoms on an epiphyte on Prionitis    		 Diatom on Prionitis
    Snail egg case

    Egg case close-up
    Bryozoan Tubulipora
    Tubulipora

    Tubulipora
    Tubulipora
    Snail Lacuna(?)

    Lacuna(?) underside
    Lacuna(?) underside (dark, but clearer shot)
    Compound tunicate Diplosoma

    Prionitis wrapped in Diplosoma
    Diplosoma surface close-up
    Diplosoma zooids

    Diplosoma zooid close-up (large pharyngeal basket, dark guts behind)    		 Prionitis with lots of galls
    Galls on Prionitis

    Gall close-up
    Gall close-up
    Gall growing from thallus in cross section

    Gall cross section

    Created by Alice Chiu, 2003. Images may be used with permission.