ID for me please, an eel

nice-diver · Post by **nice-diver** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:41 pm

Did a night dive and these little guys were all over. He's about 5-7 inches long and I have seen them longer; my dive buddy calls it a monkey eel. Pic taken in Florence north jetty.

thanks

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Huskychemist · Post by **Huskychemist** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:07 pm

Not quite an eel...but cool to see out in the open. They often hide under and inside of things.

nice-diver · Post by **nice-diver** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:14 pm

thanks,
they were all over on the floor near the jetty rocks, s'd up in little dents in the sandy bottom, the first one I seen in january was about a foot long.

I probably seen about 30 of them, sometimes in pairs.

Cera · Post by **Cera** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:51 pm

Its a gunnel....

coachrenz · Post by **coachrenz** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:15 pm

Way to hide the ID in the Subject line Huskychemist.

You could have made it easy and just put it in the message body. Who uses a subject on a reply any way?

For those who want to see it nice and easy, Lowell says it is a Crescent Gunnel Pholis laeta.