Dive #450 - Keel Cove Dive - 18 December 2020
Highlights: Cockrell's Dorid, multiple Grunt Sculpins, 3 wee little baby Puget Sound King Crabs, a rockfish covered in interesting parasites, a nudibranch with a scaleworm, a Coryphella verrucosa missing half the tubercles, a cabezon decked out in Christmas colours, a butterfly crab, and sea lions.
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Red Commensal Scaleworm (Arctonoe pulchra)Observer
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Red-fingered Coryphella (Coryphella verrucosa)Observer
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Cockerell's Dorid (Limacia cockerelli)Observer
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Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)Observer
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Puget Sound King Crab (Echidnocerus cibarius)Observer
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1st of 3 wee little PSK crabs.
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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1 of 5 Grunt Sculpins
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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2 of 5 Grunt Sculpins
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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3 of 5 Grunt Sculpins
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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4 of 5 Grunt Sculpins
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Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)Observer
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5 of 5 Grunt Sculpins
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Puget Sound King Crab (Echidnocerus cibarius)Observer
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2nd of 3 wee little PSK crabs
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Butterfly King Crab (Cryptolithodes typicus)Observer
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Puget Sound King Crab (Echidnocerus cibarius)Observer
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3rd of 3 wee little PSK crabs
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)Observer
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Note the parasites (?)
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Cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus)Observer
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