ebleke's Favorites
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Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)Observer
egarfieldDescription
Counted over 100 under the dock
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Common Basket Star (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Caught wrapped around a Balticina willemoesi by Claude Savoid. Ruxton Island, Gulf Islands, BC, Canada
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Wrinkled Star (Pteraster militaris)Observer
tom858Description
Dive observation
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Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)Observer
cspierDescription
I pulled a little on the octopus arm it was eating, and this much came out (the whitish part)!
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Genus LeptasteriasObserver
kamcdonald2Description
Added picture of the chiton it was eating
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Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)Observer
amelia494Description
This is a Leather Star eating a wasted Ochre Star
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Leather Star (Dermasterias imbricata)Observer
amelia494Description
Leather Star eating a Wasted Ochre Sea Star
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Giant California Sea Cucumber (Apostichopus californicus)Observer
lexyreinhardtDescription
With a hat!
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Nine-armed Sea Star (Luidia senegalensis)Observer
alex_romerDescription
Exhibiting signs of sea star wasting disease (loss of limbs, white lesions). 50-75 dead or dying individuals were observed at the site with the same clinical signs. Tissue samples were collected and deposited with park rangers for cold storage and molecular work. Possible first record of SSWD in florida and infecting L. senegalensis. Will update if molecular data confirms SSWD.
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Wandering Sea Anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa)Observer
albeer23Description
Tiny 20mm
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Wandering Sea Anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa)Observer
simonnicholasDescription
note the rainbow effects on the surrounding rocks as the sea anemone refracts sunlight
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
wendy5Description
I was surprised to see ice crystals formed on the Bull Kelp which had washed ashore. It's been so cold, and the kelp was in the shade on the beach. Nothing else had crystals, so I wonder if they were formed from some chemical emitted from the kelp? Once I saw "Silky Hair Ice," which looks like white cotton candy, formed when carbon dioxide made by fungi pushes filaments of ice from logs under certain cold conditions. Here are 5 photos.
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Kelps (Order Laminariales)Observer
garryfletcherDescription
unusual blisters on the lamina ??
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Surfgrass Encrusting Alga (Melobesia mediocris)Observer
lumenalDescription
On surfgrass
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Net-of-Cords Kelp (Dictyoneurum californicum)Observer
plants_and_potteryDescription
This kelp species is rare and patchily distributed in Canada, and to my knowledge not previously recorded on INaturalist for this country. At this site, it appears somewhat common as drift on the beach southeast of the Sombrio river mouth.
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Red Comb Star (Astropecten aranciacus)Observer
eleni_emmanouiDescription
In the last photo you can see the tip of its leg after the whole body was hidden under the sand.
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Rainbow Star (Orthasterias koehleri)Observer
lexyreinhardtDescription
Diving observation around 30ft.
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Notched Brittle Star (Ophiura sarsii)Observer
linddealyPlace
Missing Location
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Striped Sun Star (Solaster stimpsoni)Observer
fernsalish19Description
A beautiful and rare striped sunstar! So beautiful and encouraging to see a healthy juvenile in the wake of the wasting epidemic.
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Arctic Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)Observer
rusevaDescription
Being eaten by a Norway King Crab
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Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)Observer
bclarkstonDescription
Drift specimen, but many attached just off the rocks at Big Beach. Has “integrifolia-like” holdfast (second photo).
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Scouler's Surfgrass (Phyllospadix scouleri)Observer
mjonwhidbeyDescription
Reproductive structures
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Icon Sea Star (Iconaster longimanus)Observer
anudibranchmomDescription
Found by Peri Paleracio. ID courtesy of @echinoblog - thanks Chris!
Peri Paleracio and Erap Maestro
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Pacific Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)Observer
npatidepoolprojectDescription
Digital Camera
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Red Sea Urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)Observer
ljv2023Description
Interesting the way some spines were green at the tips. Not sure what it means.
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
iidajaervinenDescription
Found detached on mid intertidal
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
danjacoDescription
photo by Grant Callegari
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
danjacoDescription
photo by Grant Callegari
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Sea Strawberry (Gersemia rubiformis)Observer
tomleeturnerDescription
Diving in kelp forest; max depth 34 feet
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Northern Pacific Sea Star (Asterias amurensis)Observer
jenncxoxoDescription
Literally thousands along the foreshore… XOXO
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Henricia multispinaObserver
paul_norwoodDescription
I believe this is Henricia multispina, but it's not in the iNat database and I can't add it until the City Nature challenge is over.
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Giant California Sea Cucumber (Apostichopus californicus)Observer
malleable_rock
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Dock Shrimp (Pandalus danae)Observer
ajustinfocusDescription
Saw a swarm of small jellyfish swirling around at the ferry jetty, many with baby shrimps riding them!
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Ochre Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus)Observer
loriellenDescription
Dropped by an over-ambitious gull
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Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)Observer
morisaurDescription
Anemone eating a sea urchin?
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Ochre Sea Star (Pisaster ochraceus)Observer
marinebioteacherDescription
I went to Mendocino Headlands to try to document sea stars. I took pictures of every sea star, most of which were bat Stars. My goal was to cover the area as thoroughly as I could.
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Genus LeptasteriasObserver
kelpadelpianDescription
Brooding over a hundred juvenile sea stars!!
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
rachelharborwildwatchDescription
Many juvenile kelps growing on stipe of last years bull kelp
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
rachelharborwildwatchDescription
Interesting individual had pneumatocyst forming and blades coming off beneath, instead of on top.
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Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)Observer
bclarkstonDescription
Drift, attached to bivalve shell, next for Saccharina latissima (blue arrow shows N. luetkeana).
Second photo shows close-up the two holdfasts. Both highly-branched and “root-like”, but N. luetkeana holdfast on right has fewer, thicker, branched (this branched kind of holdfast in kelps is called a “haptera”).
Empress Figurehead, Stanley Park.
