Posted by Merry on October 20, 2015 at 17:16:13:
Fish-eating Anemone, Urticina piscivora
 Juvenile Fish-eating Anemone, Urticina piscivora, referenced from Lamb and Hanby, 2005.

Giant plumose Anemone, Metridium farcimen

Crimson Anemone, Cribrinopsis fernaldi

These other-worldly-colored anemones are found where there’s maximum surge, very shallow, just beneath the surface. Green Surf Anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica



Small Pink Anemone – couldn’t find ID

Painted Anemone, Urticina crassicornis

Stubby Anemone, Urticina coriacea

Upside-down Anemone – ID needed

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this anemone in the shallows. Pink and white copepods were bustling across its oral disc. WHAT? They looked like sprinkles on a donut.

Smooth Scallop Sponge, Mycale adhaerens

Yellow Hairy Sea Spiders on Red Soft Coral, Tanystylum anthomasti and Gersemia rubiformis

The anemone, Metridium senile, and Peach Ball Sponge, Suberites montiniger
 Deep Blue Sponge, Hymenamphiastra cyanocrypta

The tunicate, Distaplia occidentalis

Soft Coral

Metridium senile

Pink-mouth Hydroid, Ectopleura marina

Snails on Orange Sponge

Vancouver phoronid, Phoronopsis vancouverensis

Pacific Sea Peach Tunicate, Halocynthia aurantium

Calcareous Tubeworm Serpula columbiana

Fringed Filament Worm, Dodecaceria fewkesi & Serpulid Worm

Yoke-bearing Calcareous Tube Worm, Crucigera zygophora

Yoke-bearing Calcareous Tubeworm

Serpula columbiana
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