PNW Advanced Fish ID Part 1
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- Blue Rockfish (now known as Deacon Rockfish)
- Yelloweye Rockfish
- Manacled Sculpin
- Pacific Staghorn Sculpin
- Padded Sculpin
- Roughback Sculpin
- Silverspotted Sculpin
- Spinynose Sculpin
- Monkeyface Prickleback
- Slender Cockscomb
- Saddleback Gunnel
- Blackbelly Eelpout
Pacific Northwest Lookalikes
Fish covered in this session are:
- Painted Greenling vs. Tiger Rockfish
- Plainfin Midshipman vs Pacific Staghorn Sculpin
- Blackeye Goby vs. Bay Goby vs. Snake Prickleback
- Quillback Rockfish vs. China Rockfish
- Speckled Sanddab vs. Pacific Sanddab
- Monkeyface Prickleback vs. Wolf-eel
- Padded Sculpin vs. Scalyhead Sculpin
- Crescent Gunnel vs. Saddleback Gunnel
- Juvenile Striped Perch vs. Kelp Perch
New Invertebrates and Algae Species Additions
These new species were added to REEF's PNW monitoring program in late 2015.
Covered in this session:
- Graceful Crab
- Puget Sound King Crab
- Squat Lobster
- Fluted Bryozoan
- Orange Zoanthid
- Vermilion Star
- Basket Star
- Feather Star
- Clown Dorid
- Leopard Dorid
- Stubby Squid
- Yellow Boring Sponge
- Glassy Sea Squirt
- Bull Kelp
- Giant Kelp
- Eelgrass
- Sargassum
Gunnels, Greenlings, Gobies and more
1. Wolf Eel
2. Mosshead Warbonnet
3. Decorated Warbonnet
4. Snake Prickleback
5. Penpoint Gunnel
6. Crescent Gunnel
7. Painted Greenling
8. Kelp Greenling – Male
9. Kelp Greenling – Female
10. Ling Cod
11. Northern Ronquil
12. Blackeye Goby