Scuba dive at Point Loma, September 13, 2015
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kelp scallop Leptopecten latiauratus on giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera blade |
kelp scallop Leptopecten latiauratus open and filtering seawater for food on giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera blade |
nudibranch Felimare porterae |
two nudibranchs Felimare porterae doing something, likely egg laying |
California spiny lobster Panulirus interruptus deep in a hole |
gopher rockfish Sebastes carnatus |
red abalone Haliotis rufescens on the underside of a rock |
giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera stipes twisted around each other near the surface |
spirobid polychaete worms on both sides of a giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera blade |
head of wavy top turban snail Megastraea undosa one of its flat yellowish eyestalks is under the white lip of its shell |
kelp rockfish Sebastes atrovirens |