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Crescent Gunnel (Pholis laeta)Observer
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Missing LocationDescription
They can breathe air when they are out of water
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Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)Observer
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Missing LocationDescription
The color comes from algae that lives inside it.
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Serpulid Tubeworms (Family Serpulidae)Observer
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Missing LocationDescription
The featherlike radioles are used for filter feeding and breathing.
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Northwest Ugly Clam (Entodesma navicula)Observer
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The shells become misshapen to adjust to the crevice it has hidden in.
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Stubby Rose Anemone (Urticina coriacea)Observer
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The tentacles sting smaller organisms but are only "sticky" to us.
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Giant California Sea Cucumber (Apostichopus californicus)Observer
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Can shed their sticky internal organs to entangle predators, and then grow them back.
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Red Sea Urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)Observer
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Can live up to 30 years.
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Mottled Star (Evasterias troschelii)Observer
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They can digest their prey outside of their bodies.
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Genus OphiopholisObserver
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Size: (2.2 cm) in diameter.
Class: ophiuroidea
They hide under rocks. They don't have have intestine or anus.
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Plumose Anemone (Metridium senile)Observer
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Diameter of up to 5cm (2 in) and a height of 10 cm (4 in). Anemones are predators and they reproduce asexually or sexually.
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Arctic Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)Observer
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Commonly found in northern waters all around the world including both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It's part of echinodermata.
