{"id":798,"date":"2017-11-17T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=798"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:09:37","slug":"the-blue-eyes-of-the-argopecten-irradians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/the-blue-eyes-of-the-argopecten-irradians\/","title":{"rendered":"The blue eyes of the argopecten irradians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ngeo-bay-scallop.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Scallop, Scientific Name: Argopecten irradians\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ngeo-bay-scallop.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ngeo-bay-scallop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ngeo-bay-scallop-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ngeo-bay-scallop-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><small>Common Name: Bay Scallop, Scientific Name: Argopecten irradians, Specimen #: 27, Size: 2.5 inches acBay Scallop, Scientific Name: Argopecten irradianross (side to side), Notes: specimens ordered from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories: (850) 984-5297, gulfspecimen.org, collected near Panacea, Florida, Location: David Liittschwager&#8217;s Home Studio: 120 Parnassus Ave #1, San Francisco, CA, 94117<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mantle of the bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) is festooned with up to 100 brilliant blue eyes. Each contains a mirrored layer that acts as a focusing lens while doubling the chance of capturing incoming light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2016\/02\/evolution-of-eyes\/\">National Geographic&#8217;s history of the eye&#8217;s evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Name: Bay Scallop, Scientific Name: Argopecten irradians, Specimen #: 27, Size: 2.5 inches acBay Scallop, Scientific Name: Argopecten irradianross (side to side), Notes: specimens ordered from Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories: (850) 984-5297, gulfspecimen.org, collected near Panacea, Florida, Location: David Liittschwager&#8217;s Home Studio: 120 Parnassus Ave #1, San Francisco, CA, 94117 &#8220;The mantle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[137,87,64,136,32,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}