Discovered this almost intact seashell specimen of a West African Hemipolygona sp., empty, in a very shallow ocean lagoon of Tenerife Island near my home.
Are more complex quality Gastropoda shell photos, like this example, even accepted for iNaturalist Obs.???
Most of what I see is fairly common so it was a surprise to me, when I went back and looked at this tiny Hudsonian Ladybird beetle https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193086231 that there were only 2 other iNat observations in the whole giant state of Alaska, and all 3 are hundreds of miles apart! I took the photo many years ago, long before I joined iNat, so Iām glad to know that my curiosity led to a scientific data point.
People who can ID sponges as anything other than āSpongesā are as rare as henās teeth. I work in southeast Asia as a marine biology academic and only know one member of the Poriferati in real life. Heās not on iNat. He says he canāt do better than an amateur with only a photograph.