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A few people have already asked me about "What is that pink stuff on the rocks in some of the pictures?" Well, they're usually Pink Rock Crust (aka Encrusting Coralline Algae) or in some cases might even be Encrusting Hydrocorals. The algae are eaten by a variety of animals - apparently as a good source of calcium.
Links to the various groups of organisms:
Cephalopods, Crustaceans, Fish, Mollusks, Nudibranchs, Sea Anemones, Sea Cucumbers & Echinoderms, Sponges, Tunicates, Worms, Miscellaneous
Cephalopods
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Crustaceans
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| Giant Acorn Barnacle ~ 6 inches [15 cm] wide. But less than 3
inches showing. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Northern Kelp Crab ~ 10 inches
[25 cm] wide with the legs. These are quite a bit larger than the more common kelp crabs. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Puget Sound King Crab ~ 14
inches [35 cm] wide with legs. Note that it appears to have eaten most of the starfish in front of it. Leg by leg. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Puget Sound King Crab - same
individual as on the image found on the left. But now you can see that it is actually holding a leg up to its mouth. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Sharp Nose Crab ~ 4 inches [10 cm] long on main shell. (Feb 21, 2009) | Some kind of crab sticking out
of the shell of a dead Giant Acorn Barnacle. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Sharp Nosed Crab ~ 8 inches [20
cm] wide wit the legs. Not the small worm that makes this crab look like its wearing a flower in its "hair." (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Fish
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| Kelp Greenling ~ 2 feet [60 cm] long. This fish stayed still
for three pictures. Which is out of the ordinary as they are usually one of the first types to run away from me. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Red Irish Lord ~ 12 inches [30
cm] long. This fish was hiding under a small piece of bull kelp. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Red Irish Lord ~ 18 inches [45
cm] long. This is the largest of these fish I have ever seen. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Red Irish Lord - close up of
the same fish as on the left of this image. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Mollusks
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| Rock Scallop ~ 10 inches [25 cm] wide. If you click on this
thumbnail and open up the larger digital image you will be able to see its eyes. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Nudibranchs [or Sea Slugs] & Snails
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| Clown Dorid ~ 6 inches [15 cm] long. (Feb 21, 2009) | Diamondback Tritonia ~ 6 inches [15 cm] long. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| While Lined Dirona [aka Frosted
Nudibranch] ~ 4 inches [10 cm] long. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Sea Anemones ( Cnidarians )
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| Brooding Anemone ~ 2 inches [5 cm] wide. There was actually
quite a few of these at this dive site, and they were mostly hanging out on the bull kelp. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Buried Anemone ~ 6 inches [15 cm] in diameter. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Fish Eating Anemone ~ 12 inches [30 cm] wide. (Feb 21, 2009) | Giant Plumose Anemone ~ 16 inches [40 cm] tall. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Sea Cucumbers & Starfish ( Echinoderms )
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| Blood Star ~ 8 inches [20 cm] across. (Feb 21, 2009) | Green Sea Urchin ~ 3 inches [7.5 cm] in diameter. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Mottled Star ~ 14 inches [35 cm]
wide. These type of starfish do get larger. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Red and Purple Sea Urchins ~ 14
inches [35 cm] wide for the largest. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| A baby Red Sea Cucumber ~ 3
inches [7.5 cm] long. There were actually several of these within a square meter of a debris field that consisted mostly of the shells of dead molllusks of some kind. There is actually a very small hermit crab in the top middle of this image. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Striped Sunstar ~ 10 inches [25
cm] wide. I spotted about six young ones like this at this dive site, and no adults. But only one picture turne out well enough to post. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Sponges
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| Sponge ~ 4 inches [10 cm] wide
in this image. Not sure what species. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Sponge ~ 9 inches [22.5 cm]
wide. It looks like it could belong to a hermit crab. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Sponge ~ 12 inches [30 cm] wide
for this sponge. There were several examples of this type of sponge here. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Tunicates
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| Shiny Sea Peach tunicate ~ 4
inches [10 cm] wide. Note near it are a couple of blue line chitons. (Feb 21, 2009) |
Warty Tunicates ~ this mass is
about 8 inches [20 cm] wide. And looks to be made up of about 4 individuals. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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Worms
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Miscellaneous
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| I'm not sure what kind of plant this is. (Feb 21, 2009) | Sea Pen ~ 5 inches [12.5 cm]
tall. Not sure whether it is retracting or coming out of a burrow. It did not seem to move at all for the minute or so that I was near it. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Sea Pens ~ 18 inches [45 cm]
tall. There were several at this site, and of various ages. (Feb 21, 2009) |
The same sea pens as in image to
the left of this one, with Jason the Scuba Diver as a reference. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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| Mix of items around some Giant
Acorn Barnacles. Including some sponge, some small Orange Social Ascidians, and a Creeping Petal Sea Cucumber. (Feb 21, 2009) |
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