BC Marinelife

Phylum Chordata: Fishes, Sharks, Rays, Ratfishes, and Mammals. 

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Class Elasmobranchii: Sharks and Rays.

Big skate - Raja binoculata

Big skate egg capsules - Raja binoculata

Spiny dogfish - Squalus acanthias

 
Class Holocephali: Ratfish

Spotted ratfish - hydrolagus colliei

Spotted ratfish egg capsule - hydrolagus colliei    
Class Actinopterygii: Bony fishes

Yelloweye rockfish - Sebastes ruberrimus

Yelloweye rockfish juvenile - Sebastes ruberrimus

Copper rockfish - Sebastes caurinus

Tiger rockfish - Sebastes nigrocinctus

Black rockfish - Sebastes melanops

Quillback rockfish - Sebastes maliger China rockfish - Sebastes nebulosus

Vermilion rockfish - Sebastes miniatus

Puget Sound rockfish - Sebastes emphaeus

Kelp greenling female - Hexagrammus decagrammus Kelp greenling female - Hexagrammus decagrammus

Painted greenling - Oxylebius pictus

Lingcod - Ophiodon elongatus

Lingcod - Ophiodon elongatus    

Great sculpin - Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus

Great sculpin - Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus Buffalo sculpin - Enophrys bison

Buffalo sculpin - Enophrys bison

Cabezon - Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Grunt sculpin juvenile - Rhamphocottus richardson Grunt sculpin - Rhamphocottus richardsoni

Grunt sculpin - Rhamphocottus richardsoni

Longfin sculpin - Jordania zonope

Longfin sculpin - Jordania zonope Red irish lord - Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus

Sailfin sculpin - Nautichthys oculofasciatus

Scalyhead sculpin - Artedius harringtoni

Scalyhead sculpin - Artedius harringtoni

   

Northern searcher

Northern ronquil - Ronquilus jordani Plainfin midshipman - Porichthys notatus  

Crescent gunnel - Pholis laeta

Longfin gunnel - Pholis clemensi

Longfin gunnel - Pholis clemensi

Mosshead warbonnet - Chirolophis nugator

Tubesnout - Aulorhynchus flavidus

Snake prickleback - Lumpenus sagitta Bay pipefish - Syngnathus leptorhynchus

Bay pipefish - Syngnathus leptorhynchus

Rock sole - Pleuronectes bilineatus

C-O sole - Pleuronicthys coenosus    
Wolf eel - Anarrhyichthys occelatus      

Class Mammalia: Seals, Sea lions, Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises, and Sea otters.

California sea lion - Zalophus californianus

 

     

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