Marine Creatures of the Pacific Northwest

Anemones

• Christmas or Painted Anemone
• Frilled Anemone (Metridium Senile)
• Metridium Anemones
• Swimming Anemone (Stomphia coccinea)
• Tube-dwelling Anemone (Pachycerianthus fimbriatus)

Bryzoans

•  Northern Staghorn Bryzoan

Fish

• Decorated Warbonnet (Chirolophis decoratus)
• China Rockfish (Sebastes Nebulosus)
• Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsoni)
• Kelp Greenling  (Hexagrammidae decgrammus)
• Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (eumicrotremus orbis)
• Painted Greenling (Oxylebius pictus)
• Sailfin Sulpin (Nautichthys oculofasciatus )
• Sturgeon Poacher (Agonus acipenserinus)
• Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) 

Invertebrates

• Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus Dofleini)
• Lewis Moon Snail (Polinices Lewisii )
• Lion's Mane Jellyfish
• Puget Sound King Crab (Lopholithodes mandtii)

 

Nudibranchs

• Flabellina Trophina Nudibranch (Flabellina Fusca)
• Giant Nudibranch (Dedronotus Iris)
• Spotted Nudibranch (Dianlula sandiegensis)
• Sea Lemon Nudibranch (Anisdoris Nobilis)
• Striped Nudibranch (Armina Californica)

Sharks, Ratfish, Rays

• Sixgill Shark, (Hexanchus griseus)
• Spiny Dogfish Shark (Squalus acanthias)
• Spotted Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei)
• Whale Shark (Rhincodon Typus)

Sponges

• Cloud Sponges

Sea Stars

• Cushion Star (Pteraster tesselatus)
• Sunflower Sea Star
• Dawson's Sea Star
• Feather Star 

Urchins

• Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus)