{"id":2979,"date":"2011-01-19T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2011-01-19T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:02:03","slug":"whats-in-a-mermaids-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/19\/whats-in-a-mermaids-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Mermaid&#8217;s Purse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2980\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2980\" title=\"Big Skate egg case\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/big-skate-egg-case.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/big-skate-egg-case.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/big-skate-egg-case-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some lipstick, a hair brush&#8230;and oh look, a baby skate.\u00a0 Colloquially known as &#8220;mermaid&#8217;s purses,&#8221; these structures are actually the egg cases of some sharks and skates.\u00a0 The size of the one above, caught during a fish trawl survey,\u00a0 is a dead give away that it came from a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_skate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">big skate <\/a>(<em>Raja binoculata<\/em>) because it&#8217;s just so, well, <em>big<\/em>. \u00a0 The adults can grow up to six feet long, and the largest described was just under eight feet. \u00a0 Big skates are one of the few skate species that can have more than one embryo per egg case.\u00a0 It could make a fetching clutch when the skates are done with it \u2013 you know, with something in hues of say seaweed and seashell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lipstick, a hair brush&#8230;and oh look, a baby skate.\u00a0 Colloquially known as &#8220;mermaid&#8217;s purses,&#8221; these structures are actually the egg cases of some sharks and skates.\u00a0 The size of the one above, caught during a fish trawl survey,\u00a0 is a dead give away that it came from a big skate (Raja binoculata) because it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}