Arthropods |
|||
 |
Sheep Crab |
|
Southern Kelp Crab |
|
Northern Kelp Crab |
|
Swimming Crab |
|
Yellow Crab |
|
Brown Rock Crab |
|
Hemphill's Kelp Crab |
|
Erileptus spinosus |
|
Panamic Arrow Crab | ||
|
Purple Globe Crab |
|
Mottled Pea Crab |
|
Spotwrist Hermit |
|
Furry Hermit |
|
Squat Lobster |
|
Tuna Crab |
|
Striped Shore Crab | ||
|
California Spiny Lobster | ||
|
Spot Prawn |
|
Brown Shrimp |
|
Coonstripe Shrimp |
|
Target Shrimp |
|
Red Rock Shrimp |
|
Blackspotted Shrimp |
|
Mantis Shrimp |
|
Skeleton Shrimp |
|
Barnacle |
||
Mollusks |
(Nudibranchs are treated separately) | ||
|
Norris's Topsnail |
 |
Blue-ring Topsnail |
|
Lewis' Moon Snail |
|
Ophiodermella ophioderma |
|
Chestnut Cowry |
|
Olive Snail |
|
California Cone | ||
|
Kellet's Whelk |
|
Leafy Hornmouth |
|
Simnia |
|
Chitons |
 |
Abalone (several types) |
|
Giant Keyhole Limpet |
|
Rock Scallop |
|
Swimming Scallop |
| Clam | |||
|
Two-spot Octopus |
|
Red Octopus |
|
Squid | ||
| Sea Butterfly | |||
Echinoderms |
|||
|
|
Giant Spined Star |
|
Spiny Sand Star |
|
Bat Star |
|
Sunflower Star |
|
|
Brittle Stars (several types) |
 
|
Other Sea Stars: Red Sea Star Blood Star Fragile Rainbow Star Fragile Star Leather Star |
 |
Sea Urchins (several types) |
|
Heart Urchin |
|
Sand Dollar | ||
|
Warty Sea Cucumber |
 |
California Sea Cucumber |
|
Sweet Potato | ||
Chordata |
|||
|
Thetys vagina |
|
Pegea confoederata |
|
Salpa fusiformis |
|
Cyclosalpa affinis |
|
Pyrosoma atlanticum |
|
Larvaceans Unknown type |
|
Light Bulb Tunicates | ||
Cnidaria |
|||
|
|
Sea Pen |
|
Sea Pansy |
|
Gorgonian | ||
|
Tube-dwelling Anemone |
|
Club-tipped Anemone |
|
Aggregating Anemone |
|
White-plumed Anemone (Metridium) |
|
White-spotted Rose Anemone |
|
Sand-Rose Anemone |
|
Cup Coral (several types) |
||
 
|
Hydrocoral (several types) |
||
|
|
Purple-striped Jelly (Chrysaora colorata) |
 |
Chrysaora achlyos |
|
Fried Egg Jellyfish (Phacellophora camtschatica) |
|
Box Jelly (Carybdea marsupialis) |
|
Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) |
|
Scrippsia pacifica |
|
Polyorchis haplus |
|
Polyorchis penicillatus |
|
Apolemia sp. |
|
Swimming bells (Praya sp.) |
|
By-the-Wind Sailor (Velella vellela) |
||
Platyhelminthes |
|||
 
|
Polyclad worms (several types) |
||
Annelids |
|||
|
Christmas Tree Worm |
|
Sabellid Worm |
|
Serpulid Worm | ||
Porifera |
|||
 
|
Sponges |
 
|
Puffball Sponges |
Bryozoans |
|||
|
Bryozoans, Lacy and Fluted |
||
