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Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Strongly current-swept habitat. Large aggregations in shallow water attached to bedrock. To 10 cm tall.
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Giant Plumose Anemone (Metridium farcimen)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Juveniles, up to 2 cm across. They look quite different compared to the fully grown Giant Plumose Anemones.
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Giant Plumose Anemone (Metridium farcimen)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Juveniles of the Giant Plumose Anemone. At this stage they are only 2 cm across and look quite different from the mature anemones.
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Strawberry Anemone (Corynactis californica)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Reaches 2.5 cm across the tentacular crown. The short tentacles have knobbed tips. Often found in large aggregations.
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Giant Plumose Anemone (Metridium farcimen)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Large anemones, up to 70 cm tall, attached to a rocky pinnacle reef. Mix of white and orange specimens, although at this site the orange ones outnumber the white ones.
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Cryptic Burrowing Anemone (Halcampa crypta)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Small burrowing anemone with 12 tentacles. Shallow subtidal.
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Twelve-tentacled Parasitic Anemone (Peachia quinquecapitata)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
12 tentacles. 5 cm across. Burrowing in soft sediment in shallow subtidal.
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Genus EdwardsiaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Small burrowing anemone. 32 visible elongate tentacles.
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Genus EdwardsiaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Small burrowing anemone with many (approx. 30) elongate tentacles. Crown up to 4 cm across. Note longitudinal stripes on the column and vague white transverse bands on the tentacles.
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Twelve-tentacled Parasitic Anemone (Peachia quinquecapitata)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
12 tentacles. Crown 3 cm across. Burrowing in mud substrate in shallow subtidal.
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Sea Anemones (Order Actiniaria)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Small (to 3 cm) bright orange sea anemone, often found in clusters in shallow water. Attached to bedrock. Found at several current-swept sites in Weynton Passage.
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Moonglow Anemone (Anthopleura artemisia)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
5 cm in diameter.
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King's Aldisa (Aldisa tara)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Nudibranch Aldisa tara eating the demosponge Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) oxeota. The nudibranch is about 2 cm long. See separate entry for the sponge.
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Eighteen-scaled Worm (Halosydna brevisetosa)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Reaches 11 cm long. Has 18 pairs of scales.
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Hololepida magnaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Very large scaleworm that reaches 30 cm long. Usually observed only at night.
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Basket-top Spaghetti Worm (Pista elongata)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Tube is usually constructed of coarse gravel and shell. The tube terminates in a distinctive tangled basket which the feeding tentacles extend through.
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Fragile Tube Worm (Salmacina tribranchiata)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Forms large clusters of very slender calcareous tubes that are tightly grouped together. Tentacular crown usually orange. Common on exposed coasts in the shallow subtidal.
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Genus ParasabellaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
A large sabellid polychaete with a plume up to 10 cm across. Colour is quite variable, from white to orange. The radiole tips are naked.
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Fringed Filament Worm (Dodecaceria pacifica)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Colonial tubeworm forming large calcareous mass of tubes. Tentacles of each worm relatively short.
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Genus BispiraObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Sabellid tubeworms in a large cluster. Tubes long, extending from substrate up to 15 cm.
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Genus CistenidesObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Tube to 4 cm long. Empty tube in this case. Live worms burrow in sandy substrates with large (anterior) end of cone down.
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Genus MyxicolaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Numerous individual worms bound together in a large (to 30 cm across) gelatinous mass, usually in crevices between rocks. Often found at the base of the tubes of Pachycerianthus fimbriatus. Currently referred to as Myxicola species B.
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Genus MyxicolaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Crown up to 3 cm across. Solitary. Secretes and lives within a mucous tube. Currently referred to as Myxicola species A.
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Eumida longicornutaObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
Specimen approx. 8 cm long. On mud bottom in shallow subtidal amongst eelgrass beds.
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Frilled Commensal Scaleworm (Arctonoe fragilis)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Up to 8.5 cm long. A commensal scaleworm, in this case on the sea star Orthasterias koehleri.
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Apomatus geniculatusObserver
neilmcdanielDescription
A calcareous tubeworm with white radioles in a crown up to 5 cm across. Usually it has a single spherical operculum, but occasionally specimens with two are found.
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Red-banded Commensal Scaleworm (Arctonoe vittata)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Reaches 10 cm long. A commensal on various echinoderms and snails. On the surface of the sea star Dermasterias imbricata in this case.
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Snake Prickleback (Lumpenus sagitta)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Reaches 51 cm long. Elongate body.
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Spotfin Sculpin (Icelinus tenuis)Observer
neilmcdanielDescription
Reaches 15.9 cm long. Elongate first dorsal fin ray.
