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Fieldtrip from Big Creek to Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Co., CA, April 5, 2013
Go to Mill Creek Intertidal - Big Creek Reserve - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Potter's Beach

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-	-	green sea turtle and Pacific sardines - see also movie on youtube
-	young loggerhead sea turtle	-
-	-	tufted puffin
upside-down jelly (Cassiopeia xamachana)	-	-
spotted jelly (Mastigias papua)	-	-
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-	-	Mnemiopsis leidyi, a ctenophore
anchor or hammer coral (Euphyllia spp.)	-	The leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques) lives in seagrass or seaweed beds in Western Australia and South Australia.
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-	-	This fish-eating anemone (Urticina piscivora) was huge. They feed on fishes and shrimps, but a fish called a painted greenling are sometimes found associated, like a clownfish is with tropical anemones.
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-	tube anemones (Pachycerianthus fimbriatus)	-
-	-	possibly a longfin sculpin (Jordania zonope)
-	painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus)	possibly a snubnose sculpin (Orthonopias triacis)
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The spiny king crab (Paralithodes rathbuni) is a deep sea scavenger.	-	-
-	-	orange puffball sponge (Tethya aurantia)
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-	kelp greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus) male	California moray eel (top) and lingcod (bottom)
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