Mile 99 Report
Bandon State Park, Devils Kitchen, Haystack Rock
August 16, 2009
We were sitting on the warm sand measuring a beached bird for the COASST program with Bill Bridgeland and Robin Rauch when a small tick-like animal came scurrying across the sand toward us.
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We were sitting on the warm sand measuring a beached bird for the COASST program with Bill Bridgeland and Robin Rauch when a small tick-like animal came scurrying across the sand toward us. Bill was able to immediately recognize it as a pseudoscorpion! Pseudoscorpions look like scorpions but do not have the flexible tail with the terminal stinger but do possess the two anterior pinchers or pedipalps. Pseudoscorpions are members of the Phylum Chelicerata along with spiders, mites, ticks and horseshoe crabs. This specimen of psedoscorpion is Parachelifer scabriculus and is only about 6 mm (1/4 inch) long.
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