Cnidarians: Jellies, anemones, hydroids & corals
Doug Stark Aggregating / pink-tipped anemone Anthopleura elegantissima
Pink-tipped green anemone a.k.a. Aggregating anemone Anthopleura elegantissima Doug Stark photos
Doug Stark Moonglow / burrowing anemone Anthopleura artemisia
Stubby rose / red-beaded anemone Urticina coriacea Doug Stark photrs
Christmas / painted anemone Urticina crassicornis Doug Stark photos
Doug Stark photo Painted anemones Urticina crassicornis and
Mary Jo Adams photo White-spotted anemone Urticina lofotensis
Doug Stark photos Plumose anemones Metridium sp.
Proliferating / brooding anemone Epiactis prolifera Doug Stark & mary Jo Adams
Nemertea - Ribbon worms red ribbon worm / orange nemertean Tubulanus polymorphus Mary Jo Adams Doug Stark
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
Flatworms Mary Jo Adams
Nephtyidae Sand worm or goddess worm Nephtys sp. Mary Jo Adams
Nereidae Giant pile worm Doug Stark
Tidepools Mary Jo Adams Jim Ramaglia photo Calcareous tube worm Serpulidae
Spirorbidae Dwarf calcareous tube worms Mary Jo Adams
Polynoidae scale worms Mary Jo Adams Free living scaleworm 18-scaled worm Halosydna brevisetosa
34 Checkered periwinkle & Sitka periwinkle Littorina scutulata & Littorina sitkana Mary Jo Adams
Chink shell Lacuna
Mary Jo Adams Dire whelk Lirubuccinum dirum
Mary Jo Adams Blue topsnail Calliostoma ligatum
Striped dogwinkle on barnacles Nucella ostrina. & Chthamalus dalli Doug Stark
Frilled whelk Nucella lamelosa
Beach Naturalists at Birch Bay State Park Bubble snails! Haminoea or Aglaja sp.
Chris Brown Barnacle-eating nudibranch Onchidoris bilemellata
Opalescent nudibranch Hermissenda crassicornis Shaggy mouse Aeolidia papillosa Mary Jo Adams photo
49 Steamers! Heart Cockel & Pacific littleneck Clinocardium nuttallii Leukoma (Protothaca) staminea cp. Manila (Japenese littleneck) Venerupis philipinarium Doug Stark & Whatcom County photos
Manila / Japanese littleneck Native Pacific littleneck Doug Stark photo
What s squirting us? Horse clam neck Pacific gaper / Horseneck clam
Doug Stark photo Pea crab from fat gaper/horse clam
Jingle shell oyster / Green false jingle Pododesmus macrochisma
Pacific Oysters Crassotrea gigas Whatcom County
Mopalia chitons Mossy chiton Hairy chiton Mopalia muscosa and Mopalia ciliata Mary Jo Adams photo
Woody chiton Mopalia lignosa
58 Woody chiton Mopalia lignosa Lined chiton Tonicella lineata Annie Prevost
Doug Stark photo Limpets
61 Plate limpet Tectura scutum Mary Jo Adams Doug Stark
62 Annie Prevost Mask limpet (inflated limpet) Tectura persona
Mary Jo Adams Eelgrass limpet Lottia alveus paralella
Crustaceans Jim Ramaglia photo
Detritus Doug Stark photo Amphipod - Sand flea
Eelgrass Isopods Idotea resecata
Rockweed isopod Idotea wosnesenskii
68 Doug Stark Purple shore crab Hemigrapsus nudus Hairy shore crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis Mary Jo Adams
Mary Jo Adams Black-clawed crab Lophopanopeus bellus
Doug Stark Dungeness Crab
71 Doug Stark Graceful cancer crab Cancer gracilis
Skeleton shrimp amphipod Caprella sp. Mary Jo Adams
73 Beach Naturalists Red rock crab in Sargassum Cancer productus Sargassum muticum
Hairy hermit crab Grainy hand hermit crab Bering hermit crab Mary Jo Adams photos
76 broken back shrimp Heptacarpus sp. Mary Jo Adams
Echinoderms Oh my gracious! It s Pisaster ochraceous! Pat Kennedy photo
Doug Stark photo Purple sea stars Pisaster ochraceous
Doug Stark photos Giant pink sea star Pisaster brevispinus
81 Chris Brown Mottled sea star Evasterias troschelii
Mary Jo Adams Brooding star / six-ray star Leptaserias hexactis
Doug Stark Blood star Henricia sp.
Sunflower star Picnopodia helianthoides
Baby Sunflower Star
Annie Prevost Sun star Solaster stimpsoni.
Mary Jo Adams Long armed brittle star Amphiodia occidentalis
Nancy Bergman photos Green Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Doug Stark photo Orange sea cucumber Cucumaria miniata
Tidepool sculpin Porichthys notatus
Tracy Clark Divebums site Staghorn sculpin / bullhead
Ron wolf Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus
Doug Stark Three spine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
105 Wendy Harris Saddleback gunnels in sea lettuce Ulva sp.
Whatcom County Starry flounder
107 Wendy Harris Gull with plainfin midshipman Porichthys notatus