Cnidarians: Jellies, anemones, hydroids & corals

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1 Cnidarians: Jellies, anemones, hydroids & corals

2 Doug Stark Aggregating / pink-tipped anemone Anthopleura elegantissima

3 Pink-tipped green anemone a.k.a. Aggregating anemone Anthopleura elegantissima Doug Stark photos

4 Doug Stark Moonglow / burrowing anemone Anthopleura artemisia

5 Stubby rose / red-beaded anemone Urticina coriacea Doug Stark photrs

6 Christmas / painted anemone Urticina crassicornis Doug Stark photos

7 Doug Stark photo Painted anemones Urticina crassicornis and

8 Mary Jo Adams photo White-spotted anemone Urticina lofotensis

9 Doug Stark photos Plumose anemones Metridium sp.

10 Proliferating / brooding anemone Epiactis prolifera Doug Stark & mary Jo Adams

11 Nemertea - Ribbon worms red ribbon worm / orange nemertean Tubulanus polymorphus Mary Jo Adams Doug Stark

12 Nemertea - Ribbon worms Purple ribbon worm Paranemertes peregrina Don't let the fragile appearance of this species fool you. Paranemertes is a voracious predator known to attack, kill, and consume polychaete worms larger than itself. - Mary Jo Adams

13 Flatworms Mary Jo Adams

14 Nephtyidae Sand worm or goddess worm Nephtys sp. Mary Jo Adams

15 Nereidae Giant pile worm Doug Stark

16 Tidepools Mary Jo Adams Jim Ramaglia photo Calcareous tube worm Serpulidae

17 Spirorbidae Dwarf calcareous tube worms Mary Jo Adams

18 Polynoidae scale worms Mary Jo Adams Free living scaleworm 18-scaled worm Halosydna brevisetosa

19 34 Checkered periwinkle & Sitka periwinkle Littorina scutulata & Littorina sitkana Mary Jo Adams

20 Chink shell Lacuna

21 Mary Jo Adams Dire whelk Lirubuccinum dirum

22 Mary Jo Adams Blue topsnail Calliostoma ligatum

23 Striped dogwinkle on barnacles Nucella ostrina. & Chthamalus dalli Doug Stark

24 Frilled whelk Nucella lamelosa

25 Beach Naturalists at Birch Bay State Park Bubble snails! Haminoea or Aglaja sp.

26 Chris Brown Barnacle-eating nudibranch Onchidoris bilemellata

27 Opalescent nudibranch Hermissenda crassicornis Shaggy mouse Aeolidia papillosa Mary Jo Adams photo

28 49 Steamers! Heart Cockel & Pacific littleneck Clinocardium nuttallii Leukoma (Protothaca) staminea cp. Manila (Japenese littleneck) Venerupis philipinarium Doug Stark & Whatcom County photos

29 Manila / Japanese littleneck Native Pacific littleneck Doug Stark photo

30 What s squirting us? Horse clam neck Pacific gaper / Horseneck clam

31 Doug Stark photo Pea crab from fat gaper/horse clam

32 Jingle shell oyster / Green false jingle Pododesmus macrochisma

33 Pacific Oysters Crassotrea gigas Whatcom County

34 Mopalia chitons Mossy chiton Hairy chiton Mopalia muscosa and Mopalia ciliata Mary Jo Adams photo

35 Woody chiton Mopalia lignosa

36 58 Woody chiton Mopalia lignosa Lined chiton Tonicella lineata Annie Prevost

37 Doug Stark photo Limpets

38 61 Plate limpet Tectura scutum Mary Jo Adams Doug Stark

39 62 Annie Prevost Mask limpet (inflated limpet) Tectura persona

40 Mary Jo Adams Eelgrass limpet Lottia alveus paralella

41 Crustaceans Jim Ramaglia photo

42 Detritus Doug Stark photo Amphipod - Sand flea

43 Eelgrass Isopods Idotea resecata

44 Rockweed isopod Idotea wosnesenskii

45 68 Doug Stark Purple shore crab Hemigrapsus nudus Hairy shore crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis Mary Jo Adams

46 Mary Jo Adams Black-clawed crab Lophopanopeus bellus

47 Doug Stark Dungeness Crab

48 71 Doug Stark Graceful cancer crab Cancer gracilis

49 Skeleton shrimp amphipod Caprella sp. Mary Jo Adams

50 73 Beach Naturalists Red rock crab in Sargassum Cancer productus Sargassum muticum

51 Hairy hermit crab Grainy hand hermit crab Bering hermit crab Mary Jo Adams photos

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53 76 broken back shrimp Heptacarpus sp. Mary Jo Adams

54 Echinoderms Oh my gracious! It s Pisaster ochraceous! Pat Kennedy photo

55 Doug Stark photo Purple sea stars Pisaster ochraceous

56 Doug Stark photos Giant pink sea star Pisaster brevispinus

57 81 Chris Brown Mottled sea star Evasterias troschelii

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59 Mary Jo Adams Brooding star / six-ray star Leptaserias hexactis

60 Doug Stark Blood star Henricia sp.

61 Sunflower star Picnopodia helianthoides

62 Baby Sunflower Star

63 Annie Prevost Sun star Solaster stimpsoni.

64 Mary Jo Adams Long armed brittle star Amphiodia occidentalis

65 Nancy Bergman photos Green Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

66 Doug Stark photo Orange sea cucumber Cucumaria miniata

67 Tidepool sculpin Porichthys notatus

68 Tracy Clark Divebums site Staghorn sculpin / bullhead

69 Ron wolf Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus

70 Doug Stark Three spine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

71 105 Wendy Harris Saddleback gunnels in sea lettuce Ulva sp.

72 Whatcom County Starry flounder

73 107 Wendy Harris Gull with plainfin midshipman Porichthys notatus

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