Greg, what say you on this one that we found at Sund in January 2015?[/quote]
that is a skate case- much more rectangular shape, and I'm guessing considerably larger
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- Sat Nov 19, 2016 12:33 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Sund Rock - 11/12/16
- Replies: 44
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- Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:15 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Sund Rock - 11/12/16
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9260
Re: Sund Rock - 11/12/16
Actually I think that's a brown cat shark egg case- very cool find
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Tritonia diomedea
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5143
Re: Tritonia diomedea
These are actually diamondback tritonia, Tritonia festiva. Still nice pics
- Sun Oct 09, 2016 1:04 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Actually the Henricia with the white "armpits" like the one shown here are an undescribed species- one of many in our area
- Sun Oct 09, 2016 1:00 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Green crab sightings in Puget Sound put experts on alert
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3545
Re: Green crab sightings in Puget Sound put experts on alert
Correct- the shallow sloughs and low-vis estuaries where they live are unlikely dive sites
- Sat Oct 08, 2016 11:29 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Green crab sightings in Puget Sound put experts on alert
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3545
Re: Green crab sightings in Puget Sound put experts on alert
Gdog wrote:Wonder how they taste......
They taste like red rock crab- but there's very little meat in one, and you spend more calories getting it out than you get from eating it.
So maybe a good diet food
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:32 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: New book on invertebrates of Mexico
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3545
New book on invertebrates of Mexico
For those of you that venture south of the border (or dream of it) there's a great new book out on the invertebrates of northern Mexico
- Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:08 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Maury Island pier/pilings coming out very early Sept
- Replies: 31
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Re: Maury Island pier/pilings coming out very early Sept
from the map it looks like there might be shore access- anyone know if one could get in there during the week?
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Keystone observatory
- Replies: 2
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Keystone observatory
Question for some of the (other) old-timers out there: I was looking at an old Cousteau book on octopus and squid the other day, and it said that Keystone jetty used to have some sort of underwater port/viewer that people could look out while divers brought things like octopus up to it for them to s...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:52 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Species ID?
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- Views: 3421
Re: Species ID?
Flatfish is a rock sole
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:40 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
- Views: 1058561
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
The baby "great sculpin" is actually a buffalo- note the steeper profile of the face and smaller mouth. The big giveaway though is the raised row of scales on the upper part of the back.
That white adult is one strange looking beast, though.
That white adult is one strange looking beast, though.
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:30 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Just an Oyster?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3359
Re: Just an Oyster?
Horseclam (Tresus)
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:47 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Neon pink...?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2773
Re: Neon pink...?
yep, an amphipod- Podocerus cristatus. Comes in a wide variety of cool colors
- Sun May 29, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: I know it's now legal....
- Replies: 3
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I know it's now legal....
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but how is he ever going to light it underwater?- Sun May 29, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: One Says Yum, The Other Says...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2799
Re: One Says Yum, The Other Says...
I vote roughback- first pic shows that somewhat oval (rather than round) eye shape that is characteristic of the species
- Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:15 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: an odd growth on a candy stripe shrimp
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4349
Re: an odd growth on a candy stripe shrimp
It's a bopyrid isopod- see the entry on it on pg. 13 of my newer book
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:00 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Leptasterias at junkyard
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5378
Re: Leptasterias at junkyard
I don't recall seeing Leptasterias of any kind this far down in the Sound, although I did record seeing one near Tahuya on Hood Canal a long, long time ago. Most refer to the colorful ones like Jan posted as L. aequalis, while the greenish-gray ones are L. hexactis. Both are very common on Skyline w...
- Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:18 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Leptasterias at junkyard
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5378
Re: Leptasterias at junkyard
I'm not sure that is a Leptasterias- thinking it might just be a juvenile Pisaster brevispinus with an extra arm. This has an obvious giant pedicellaria (at about 7 o'clock on the disk) and I don't think either of our local Leptasterias have these- can't see them in any of my pics or find any mentio...
- Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:24 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
- Views: 1058561
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Actually I don't think these are one of the nudies that uses nematocysts for its own defense-
see http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3386
see http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3386
- Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:10 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: ThThTh 1/28 Report
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2095
Re: ThThTh 1/28 Report
https://derekcs.smugmug.com/Underwater/Seattle-Diving/Redondo-Beach-Park-2016-01-28 Love the stubby eye. Were the crabs eating one of their own? I think it was a kelp crab, so depends on your definition of their own. Plus I think it was two different species fighting it out. Graceful crab (Cancer g...
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:52 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Victoria Diving
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1209
Re: Victoria Diving
Ogden Pt is a must-do. Easy access, great day or night. Ten mile point is also excellent, but you'll want to hit slack on a day without a big exchange. Willis point is good and a great fall-back if it's too rough elsewhere.
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:00 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
- Views: 1058561
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Well, you saw how clumsy and slow it was walking around in the open. Once they're out of the burrow they're toast- he's probably in a staghorn's tummy by now.
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:29 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Alki Junkyard - Sea Spiders - 1/9/16
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4292
Re: Alki Junkyard - Sea Spiders - 1/9/16
Sorry for the late response, just saw the question: yes, sea spider is the correct. Their relationship to terrestrial spiders is still a matter of debate, but it is a perfectly acceptable term.
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
- Views: 1058561
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Alex is correct in that the shape of the ghost shrimp's claw looks more like a gigas, but as noted the eyestalks are those of a californiensis. I've been fooled by ones like this in the past- it could be that regenerating claws take a while to develop the expansion that is normally seen in large cal...
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:24 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5440
- Views: 1058561
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
I actually had an urchin that recovered from that- lost all its spines and I figured it was toast, but I never got around to removing it from the tank and it regrew them.