Northwest Dive Club

There is some question whether those with more spines are a different species (Heptacarpus franciscanus) or just a variant of the stilleto shrimp, H. stylus. At least in filing my photos, I just call them all stylus.
Your clam looks like a false geoduck, Panomya ampla.

I'm thinking sharpnose sculpin, Clinocottus acuticeps.

Yep, it's a scalyhead. Scales like that are a feature of all the Artedius (scalyhead, smoothhead, padded etc.)

Pete, Whitespotted crossed my mind too - but the thing that's throwing me is the color of its eye. I've never seen a Juv Whitespotted with the eye that colorful, have you? It shows up in all three photos. - Janna :) Though very small in the picture, the one in Lamb and Edgell seems to have similar ...

I think to be a true albino they have to lack pigment altogether, and these all have some color on them. I've seen these kinds of weird variants in trawl-caught flatfish, and sometimes they have their color reversed so that the dark side is on the bottom- though you wouldn't see that when diving.

It's a caprellid amphipod ("skeleton shrimp" - though they aren't actually shrimps)

It's a Pandalopsis lucidirimicola (sparkling shrimp). They come in either red or purple, always with the brilliant white flecks. I described and named this species after my book came out, so it wasn't included. The tongue-twister species name translates as 'glittering crevice dweller', for obvious r...

The mention of it in this thread is the first that I'd heard of it in regard to lobsters. DF&W would definitely not allow a university to hold imports in a pen or an open-system aquarium, but restaurants and seafood distributors don't seem to follow the same rules. Closed systems and chillers ar...

That's what I'd guess too. Slightly more pointed snout and bigger eyes than either the Pacific or tomcod. Also the short light bars along the upper side, though I don't like using color or markings for this group. These three can be tough to id underwater and you often have to look at multiple shots...

Nope. All my pics are of furry, feathery, and sulphury things.

Pollock don't have a large barbel on the chin- it's either a Pacific cod or tomcod. The placement of the first anal fin makes me think it's a small Pacific cod; it would be further forward on a tomcod.

Back from Yellowstone. Yeah, I'd definitely go with Alpheus bellimanus.

It's a stubby rose anemone, Urticina coriacea.

Hoo, boy! Quite a thread to come back to. Just a few things I'd like to add: 1. The issue of storing non-native critters like this in submerged pens is something we should ALL be concerned about. And this shouldn't just be things like Atlantic lobsters; it should include things like dungeness crab s...

I may never hear the end of this, but Janna...might...be...right. The snout seems too blunt for a great, but then again it's just a baby and I may have never seen a really small one before. Checking in Hart, I see that greats also have a single row of scales along the lateral line, which never showe...

yeah, the little markings you can see on and behind his white saddle.

You're ok- all three are irish lords.
Browns are strictly outer coast and have never been found inside the sound.

Looks like a baby buffalo sculpin. Tidepools have a much smaller head and pointed snout, and smoothheads a somewhat flattened head with a drawn-out, flat snout. Buffs have a characteristic single row of big scales that are visible in the picture.

Beats me. Seems to do it automatically- maybe they changed something with the site. Could be why I couldn't find Janna's message about re-sizing pictures that used to be at the head of the list?

I have NEVER seen one this camouflaged! Never? Does that mean you've been playing with photoshop again? :) Those Barkley sound ones seem especially talented- here's one from Bamfield. I like how it not only matches the coralline algae, it also matches the speckles from tubeworms sticking up through...

The crab is a thickclaw porcelain crab, Pachycheles rudis; the shrimp Pandalus danae. Actually looks like a molt of a crab that he's chewing on, not the actual crab.

Looks like Idotea stenops

I don't have any references with me to double check, but I think no. 3 is a Kellet's whelk (not found up here so not in Lamb's book). The last one is a vermetid gastropod- a snail that looks like a tube worm.

The second one is an amphipod, not an isopod. It's probably Ampithoe lacertosa, a bright green species that makes nests in sea lettuce (Ulva)

Since these stars feed on cucumbers, not anemones, I doubt it was an attack by the star gone bad. U. columbiana tentacles droop down and it probably crawled too close and got pulled in upside down (nothing to grip to on the sand bottom; actually happens a lot with crabs). But it looks like the star ...