Can anyone ID this aquatic creature for me?

T.O.
Posts: 4
April 5, 2015 at 10:16 pm #1531192
Found this on shore of a local lake…definitely does not look good or native. Soft body squirting mollusk of some sort. If anyone can ID that’d be great.
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Brett Erickson
Maple Grove,MN
Posts: 63

April 6, 2015 at 12:09 am #1531210

While I personally cant identify what it is, I would highly recommend that you contact the dnr with the picture and the name of the lake. here is a link
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/ais/contacts.html
blackbay
mn
Posts: 872
April 6, 2015 at 10:51 am #1531338
It looks like decomposing water lily rhizomes “roots”.
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suzuki
Woodbury, Mn
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April 6, 2015 at 12:36 pm #1531393

My gut feeling when I first saw this post was plant. I know I have seen similar things.

mplspug
Palmetto, Florida
Posts: 25026

April 6, 2015 at 1:35 pm #1531445

I see those things floating from a short distance and my first thought is gator or snake before realizing what it is.

T.O.
Posts: 4

April 7, 2015 at 7:40 pm #1532134

Thanks much. Frightened me for a minute when it squirted as I stepped on it. Case closed.

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