Feeding on sediment bottom. 15 ft deep.
Aeolid, 1.5cm long. Pink-peach body. Rhinophores smooth, long and joined at base. Cerata abundant with white tips and dark pink to red digestive glands with uneven, bumpy form.
Same observation as jonathan1232, same location, same date.
Polyclad egg masses
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1285 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1404 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute | Provisional name = Dynamenella NEP01
To 45 mm long. Cryptic colouration. Observed during night dive in a bay on the west side of Hecate Island.
In April 1992 a dead grey whale washed ashore on the beach at Stanley Park, Vancouver Harbour. The whale's skin was covered with these barnacles, surrounded by large numbers of whale isopods, Cyamus scammoni.
SeaTube URL of ROV video and audio: https://dmas.uvic.ca/SeaTube?resourceTypeId=1000&resourceId=23543&diveId=2661&time=2018-07-18
>>NOTE: please click the link then COPY-PASTE the following timecode to the end of the URL: T23:22:57.000Z
SeaTube URL of ROV video and audio: https://dmas.uvic.ca/SeaTube?resourceTypeId=1000&resourceId=23543&diveId=972&time=2018-07-19
>>NOTE: please click the link then COPY-PASTE the following timecode to the end of the URL: T18:13:20.000Z
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1642 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
This endoparasitic copepod forms swollen galls on the leaves of the sea pen Ptilosarcus gurneyi. Usually a male and female of these tiny and rather ugly copepods are found in each gall. For more information and pictures of these little beasts, see Williams et al, 2016 in Marine Diversity.
Desmacella austini is the parasitic, white-overgrowth covering almost the whole body of this individual Aphrocallistes vastus glass sponge.
The scattered spindle-shaped sclerites in the neck of the polyps are distinctive among octocorals in the region. Images taken in lab of specimen collected at low tide from Cayucos. When disturbed, the polyps of this species can retract completely into the colony mass (see 4th image).
For a good view of a colony of this species in situ at low tide at Scott Creek, Santa Cruz County, CA, see image by @lemurdillo here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5160161
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-0240 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Photo CC-BY-NC-SA license and credit, and taxonomic work, belongs to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).
This observation is a part of the long-term monitoring efforts of Gustav Paulay and his team at FLMNH and Friday Harbor Labs.
Although this observation also falls within the boundaries of the MarineGEO iNaturalist umbrella project (which is an ongoing collaborative work between MarineGEO and the Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Museum, and our network partners), this is not from a MarineGEO specific campaign.
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-2625 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-09006 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Seen several of this kind of fish on one dive. This one had a parasite on its face