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Santa Rosa & Santa Cruz Islands
aboard the Peace
October 13-14, 2009

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October 13, 2009 : 30 ft. at Talcott Shoal, Santa Rosa Island
Tritonia festiva	Tritonia festiva	Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple Sea Urchin)	Parapholas californica (California Piddock, Scale-Sided Piddock)
Sea Cucumber	Anthopleura sola	Anthopleura sola	Lithopoma undosum (Wavy Turban Snail) with a juvenile Pisaster sp. (Sea Star) on the shell
Eudistylia polymorpha (Feather Duster Worm) on  Spheciospongia confoederata (Gray Moon Sponge)	Epiactis prolifera	Cypraea spadicea (Chestnut Cowry)	Barnacles feeding through openings in Spheciospongia confoederata (Gray Moon Sponge)
Styela montereyensis (Stalked Tunicate)	unidentified anemone	unidentified anemone	Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple Sea Urchin)
Diaulula sandiegensis	Epiactis prolifera	Epiactis prolifera	Parapholas californica (California Piddock, Scale-Sided Piddock)
unidentified anemone	Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple Sea Urchin)	Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)	Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)
Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)	Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)	Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)	Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin)
Artedius lateralis (Smoothhead Sculpin) burying itself with it's pectoral fins	Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple Sea Urchin)	Ophiopteris papillosa (Flat-spined Brittle Star)	Ophioplocus esmarki (Smooth Brittle Star)
October 14, 2009 : Just West of Annex at 70 ft., Santa Cruz Island
Pandalus danae (Dock Shrimp or Coon-Stripe Shrimp)	Tritonia festiva	Tritonia festiva	Doriopsilla albopunctata
Cucumaria salma	unidentified Compound Tunicate	Asterina miniata (Bat Star)	Cucumaria piperata
A juvenile Sebastes carnatus (Gopher Rockfish)	Asterina miniata (Bat Star)	Diaulula sandiegensis	Juvenile Sea Star
Sebastes carnatus (Gopher Rockfish)	Dodecaceria concharum (Colonial Polychaete)	Dodecaceria concharum (Colonial Polychaete)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)
Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)
Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Neoclinus uninotatus (One-Spot Fringehead)	Artedius harringtoni (Scalyhead Sculpin)
Artedius corallinus (Coralline Sculpin)	Artedius corallinus (Coralline Sculpin)	Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Blackeye Goby)	Membranipora sp. (Bryozoan) on Macrocystis pyrifera (Giant Kelp)
Chris Grossman's Underwater Photography

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