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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, CancerMagister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivorydepressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms insubtidal regions and in
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, CancerMagister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivorydepressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms insubtidal regions and in
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, CancerMagister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivorydepressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms insubtidal regions and in
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Hooded Nudibranch, Melibeleonina, is also called the Lion Nudibranch. This mollusk is almost transparent with a slight yellowish-green cast. Unlike other nudibranchs, Melibe have noradula and M.
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bubble Shell, Haminoea sp. is seasonally abundant intertidally and subtidally on mud flats and sandy-mudbottomed bays from Alaska to the Gulf of California. The shell is fragile,translucent, and
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Eelgrass Isopod, Idotearesecata, occurs from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Mazatlan, Mexico, onMacrocystis or eelgrass (Zostera sp.), which it eats. The body is brown whenliving on Macrocystis
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Sunflower Star Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, is found on a variety of subtidal bottoms andin extremely low intertidal zones from Unalaska Island, Alaska, to BajaCalifornia, Mexico. The largest,
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Taylor's Sea Slug,Phyllaplysia taylori, is common on blades of eelgrass (Zostera sp.) in lowintertidal areas from Nanaimo, British Columbia to San Diego, California. Thebody is dorsoventrally flatten
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissendacrassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety ofhabitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its d
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissendacrassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety ofhabitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its d
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Mud Snail, Batillaria attramentaria, is abundant on soft mud or high intertidal zones of quiet baysand estuaries from Boundary Bay, British Columbia, to Elkhorn Slough, California. The shell is l
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Nassa Snail, Nassariusfraterculus, was introduced from Japan and occurs on muddy beaches near PadillaBay. It may soon appear in other areas of Puget Sound.It is up to 1.3 cm long with strong radi
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Painted Tealia, Urticina crassicornis (formerly Tealia crassicornis), is also known as the Christmas Anemone, Red and Green Anemone, or Painted Urticina. This large anemone isfound in low intertida
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Shiner Perch, Cymtogasteraggregata, is found in shallow waters during summer months and in waters up to146 meters in the winter. Body length is up to 21 cm with females growinglarger than males.
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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetusleucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brownplumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feetare yellow. Wing
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Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A young moose.
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Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A sea otter feeding on asea urchin.
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Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A beautiful array of starfish, sea urchins an mussel shells in the rocky intertidal zone of Kachemak Bay.
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