Species index
Species index
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Latest Species Index Additions
Welcome to the Emerald Diving Species Index!
This index contains photographs and identification of more than 300 species that you may encounter when diving Washington or British Columbian waters.
This identification index is organized by commonly family name. If there are more than three species in a particular family, a scroll bar will appear on the right side of this window and allow you to scroll down the page. You can also click on any of the images to see a larger image of the species. For the viewer to work properly, please let all thumbnail images on the page load before enlarging an image.
The information presented for each species is based upon my limited knowledge, which is by no means comprehensive or complete. The ID characteristics listed are the physical clues that I use to determine the species in this area. I will continue to add to this index as photo opportunities arise.
 | Clapper Hydroid |
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 | Feather Star |
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 | Fragile Combjelly |
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 | Orange Soft Coral |
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 | White Hydroid |
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 | Wrinkled Star |
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 | Fan Bryozoan |
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4.18.09 A fantastic trip to Tumbo Channel in the southern Gulf Islands produced 7 new species for the index, and would have yielded at least three others if my camera worked on the second dive. I have only noted the orange soft corals at one other site. Its amazing how crossing the boarder changes the marine life!
 | Stubby Squid Eggs |
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 | Scaled Crab |
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 | Spotfin Sculpin |
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 | White Sea Cucumber |
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5.09.09 A day trip to Hood Canal scored a shot of the elusive scaled crab for the index. I also found a beautiful cluster of stubby squid eggs on the wall at Pulali Point. White Sea cucumber and spotfin sculpin shots are upgraded images of species already listed in the index.
 | Basket Star Juvenile |
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 | Club Tipped Ascidian |
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 | Gunpowder Star |
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 | Kennerly's Venus Clam |
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 | Oval Anchored Stalked Jelly |
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.jpg "Pink Branching Hydrocoral (Stylaster norvigicus)") | Pink Branching Hydrocoral (Stylaster norvigicus) |
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 | Pomegranate Nudibranch |
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 | Raspberry Hydroid |
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 | Rusty Bryozoan |
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 | Snubnose Sculpin |
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 | Southern Staghorn Bryozoan |
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 | Stick Bryozoan |
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 | Three Lined Aeolid |
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 | Vermilion Rockfish Juvenile |
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 | Widow Rockfish Juvenile |
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 | Yellow Hairy Sea Spider |
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 | Red Mushroom Compound Ascidian |
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 | Bushy-Backed Nudibranch |
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 | Brown Cup Coral |
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 | Pacific Sea Peach |
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 | Sharp Lipped Boot Sponge |
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 | Iophon Sponge |
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 | Red Stalked Jelly |
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 | Umbrella Crab |
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 | Speghetti Worm |
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 | Widow Rockfish |
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 | Thick Strap Sponge |
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 | Jointed Three Section Tubeworm |
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 | Variable Topsnail |
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 | Undescribed Anemone |
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6.08.09 The big dive trip of the year! A ten day trip aboard the Nautilus Explorer to circumnavigate Vancouver Island yields many new entries for the Species Index and many wonderful (and a few not so wonderful) dives. Stops in the northern Johnstone Strait, Browning Pass, Quatsino Sound, Esparanzo Inlet, Barkley Sound, and Race Rocks were on the schedule. See Dive Reports for a full report!
