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Pacific White-sided Dolphin (Sagmatias obliquidens)Observer
ajustinfocusDescription
This good sized pod seemed to be hunting for hours, coming quite close to shore (within ~50 metres). As viewed uncropped from shore on a MFT 300mm lens.
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Common Basket Star (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis)Observer
megalotroDescription
Basket star on a sea whip
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Scaled Crab (Placetron wosnessenskii)Observer
megalotroPlace
Brackett's Landing Shoreline Sanctuary Conservation Area, 50 Railroad Ave, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA (Google, OSM)Description
Edmonds Underwater Park
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Butterfly King Crab (Cryptolithodes typicus)Observer
ajustinfocusDescription
A handshake? Dance? Fight? Date? Dinner? Uncertain.
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Amphipods (Order Amphipoda)Observer
ajustinfocusDescription
Noticed in video, after recording 😆
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China Rockfish (Sebastes nebulosus)Observer
eblekeDescription
Dive observation
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Puget Sound King Crab (Echidnocerus cibarius)Observer
eblekeDescription
Dive observation. Juvenile.
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Giant Nudibranch (Dendronotus iris)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
Juvenile? Just a few centimeters swimming in water column.
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Feralia deceptivaObserver
ajustinfocusDescription
It clung to a curtain in our shop. After several days, I realized they had completed their journey
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Orange Rosary Millipede (Helicorthomorpha holstii)Observer
talibzuoPlace
Missing Location
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Hincksina velataObserver
jeffgoddardDescription
Partially grazed by the Limacia cockerelli shown here. Underside of a boulder in a low intertidal pool.
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Euphysa flammeaObserver
greenwaterdiverDescription
With amphipod hitchhikers.
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Nudibranch-mimicking Amphipod (Podocerus cristatus)Observer
jeffgoddardDescription
Nudibranch Coryphella trilineata (northern form, about 10mm long) & look-alike amphipod Podocerus cristatus. Scanned from a 35 mm slide I took in the lab in 1984. I had found the specimens in close proximity to each other a few days earlier in the low intertidal at Middle Cove, Cape Arago, Oregon. The amphipod (and her recently hatched juveniles, visible at lower right when viewed large) are on a piece of the outer tube of the polychaete Pista elongata; the slug is on a piece of the hydroid Abietinaria.
Notice the white head tentacles of the slug and the white antennae on the amphipod. Here's what one form of the amphipod looks like in central California, where the southern form of O. trilineata ( with chromium orange on their rhinophores and cephalic tentacles) is prevalent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1103734
Farther south, near Puerto Vallarta, MX, the amphipod lacks white lines, just like the abundant local aeolids (see Fig. 1f-h in paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282252603).
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Garden Tiger (Arctia caja)Observer
avocetiaDescription
Photo taken at Ace Hardware store sidewalk display.
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Opalescent Inshore Squid (Doryteuthis opalescens)Observer
ja_fieldsDescription
I’ve been assuming these little guys I see sometimes are just larval D. opalescens but I don’t actually know what all other species are in the area so want to look into a little more/hear from folks before specifying it down
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Robust Clubhook Squid (Onykia robusta)Observer
lostermanDescription
Pointed out to me by a couple of birders, who suggested it had been “caught by the low tide". They moved it atop the rock.
Compellingly beautiful creature, the photo does not do it justice.
Seek could not identify, even to order.
Of the two species in these waters, looks much more like a Humboldt than an Opalescent.
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Stubby Bobtail (Rossia pacifica)Observer
thelittlebrrmaidDescription
Baby Stubby Squid season is here at Alki Junkyard dive site! Found 5 babies, two were as small as a thumbnail.
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Hooded Nudibranch (Melibe leonina)Observer
jensseattleDescription
At least 100 observed, groups mating and lots of eggs
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Big Skate (Beringraja binoculata)Observer
boattailedgrackleDescription
pups seen wriggling inside when held to light, looking pretty large in size like they might hatch soon. Promptly returned to the water.
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Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observer
jensseattleDescription
Observed while night lighting at Friday Harbor Marina
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Pinto Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)Observer
hilaryhayfordDescription
Intertidal, ~1 m below MLLW. Specific location withheld due to risk to species
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Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)Observer
lemurdilloDescription
Larry's Lair dive site. San Juan Island. Max depth 22 m
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Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)Observer
crabsandshrimpsDescription
first one I've seen at this location
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Plainfin Midshipman (Porichthys notatus)Observer
stierraDescription
Mid intertidal. Fish eggs? They looked dry, so they are probably old.
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Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)Observer
eblekeDescription
Dive observation. Juvenile.
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Cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus)Observer
crabsandshrimpsDescription
juvenile
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White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)Observer
garryfletcherDescription
https://www.racerocks.ca/acipenser-transmontanus-white-sturgeon/. photos by Ryan Murphy . predation by sealion
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Yelloweye Rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus)Observer
diverdan55Description
at Boeing Creek. Not often seen as they're rather shy. This one was hiding under a large concrete overhang just out of the reach of my strobe.
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Canary Rockfish (Sebastes pinniger)Observer
eblekeDescription
Dive observation
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Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes flavidus)Observer
canaryrockfishDescription
subadult
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Cyamus cetiObserver
caritaDescription
Collected around the genital area from a dead juvenile gray whale... looked different from those inhabiting other areas of the body that were tentatively identified as C. scammoni
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Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)Observer
caritaDescription
Loca upon approximate.
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East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens)Observer
skinksnsuchDescription
Found at 60ft near Geodome
