Category Archives: Species

Tringa incana : Wandering Tattler

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Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Scolopacidae
Genus Tringa
Species incana
Common Name: Wandering Tattler (Gmelin, 1789)

Other Members of the Class Aves at Race Rocks.

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pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams.

This file was originally started when Pam Birley from Great Britain submitted her photos .

 

Sebastes emphaeus: Puget Sound rockfish

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Sebastes emphaeus, Puget Sound Rockfish photo by Ryan Murphy

Ryan took this photo in late August 2010, while diving at 10 metres at Race Rocks.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Scorpaeniformes
Family Sebastidae
Genus Sebastes
Species S. emphaeus (Starks, 1911)

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pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams. August 2010- Ryan Murphy

Stylasterias forreri: Fish-eating star or Velcro seastar–The Race Rocks taxonomy

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This photo taken by Andrew McCurdy in August 2010 is from West Race Rocks around 40ft depth. It is not a very common sea star out there..

From Wikipedia: The velcro star feeds on invertebrates such as gastropod molluscs and chitons. When alert to movement in the water nearby, the rings of pedicellariae are extended, ready for action. If anything touches its aboral (upper) surface, the starfish reacts by snapping shut the pedicellariae in the vicinity of the stimulus. By this means it can catch prey items such as small fish.[3] The victim is passed to the mouth by movements of the arms and by actions of the tube feet. The velcro star can also defend itself against attack by predators such as the voracious morning sun star (Solaster dawsoni).[3] To fight back, it coils its arms around the attacker and inflicts thousands of nips with its pedicellariae. The attacker often retreats and the velcro star escapes.[3]

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Curculionoidea
Genus Stylasterias
Species forreri ( de Loriol, 1887)
Common Name: Fish-eating star or Velc

Other Members of the Phylum Echinodermata at Race Rocks 
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pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams. — Andrew McCurdy 2010

Pycnoclavella stanleyi, Yellow Social Ascidian–The Race Rocks taxonomy–

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Image by Adam Harding, West Race Rocks July 2010

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Urochordata
Class Ascidiaceae
Order Enterogona
Suborder Aplousobranchia
Family Clavelinidae
Genus Pycnoclavella
Species stanleyi
Common Name: Yellow social ascidian

Pycnoclavella and the nudibranch Flabellina verrucosa

Close up of the tunicate,image by Ryan Murphy
 

Other Members of the Subphylum Urochordata underwater at Race Rocks <
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Raja rhina: Longnose Skate–The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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Part of the dorsal side.. the skate had been partially eaten, perhaps by a seaion.

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In the summer of 2006, this skate washed up near the jetty at Race Rocks. This is the ventral side with the mouth showing at the left side.

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Elasmobranchii
Order Rajiformes
Family
 Rajidae
Genus Raja
Species rhina
Common Name: Longnose skate

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This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students , faculty , staff and volunteers of Lester B. Pearson College,—- 2006 —G. Fletcher

 

Pugettia producta: Kelp Crab –The Race Rocks taxonomy

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This is a very common crab subtidally at Race Rocks, frequently seen dangling from kelp as it reaches wide with its pincers for catching prey

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Epialtidaae
Genus Pugettia
Species producta

Common Name:Kellp Crab

Other Members of the Phylum Arthropoda at Race Rocks 
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Garry Fletcher

Lactuca tatarica: Blue lettuce–The Race Rocks taxonomy

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The introduced invasive species Lactuca tatarica appears occasionally at Race Rocks

Cautionary note in case someone gets hungry on the island:

“The milky-sap from this plant, contains a medicinal compound called ‘lactucarium’. It has been used for its pain-relieving, antispasmodic, digestive, urinating-inducing, hypnotic, narcotic and sedative inducing properties If one injests the plant it is used to treat insomnia, anxiety, neuroses, hyperactivity in children, dry coughs, whooping cough, and rheumatic pain. An external dose can even be applied to warts. However, it should be noted that this plant should not be used in these cases excepted by trained professionals. This is because the plant, even in small doses, could lead to death through cardiac paralysis.” (plant-life.org)

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Lactuca
Species: L. tatarica
Lactuca tatarica

Other Angiosperms at Race Rocks.

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Didemnum carnulentum: The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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Photo of Didemnum sp.(white colony)  was taken at Race Rocks by Dr. Armin Svoboda. We had taken  Dr Svoboda to Race Rocks at the request of Dr.Anita Brinckmann-Voss. He shared many of his excellent phots with us afterwards

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordate
SubphylumTunicata
Class: Ascidiacea
Order: Aplousobranchia
Family: Didemnidae
Genus Didemnum
Species carnulentum
Common Name: ascidian

Reference : Bacteria in Didemnia Produce Anti-cancer compounds

SALT LAKE CITY, May 9 (UPI) — U.S. scientists said they have discovered a microbe found inside sea squirts produces a compound that has anti-cancer properties.

UV light absorbing Tunic Cells in Ascidian

Other Members of the subphylum Urochordata  at Race Rockstaxonomyicon

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Serpula columbiana: Red- trumpet Calcareous tubeworm–The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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This tubeworm is seldom seen as it retracts at the smallest disturbance. Ryan took this image while diving off the north side of Great Race Rock.

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Serpula columbiana by Ryan Murphy, April, 2010 

See Ryan’s underwater set on Flickr with a range of invertebrates:

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Subclass canalipalpata
Order Sabellida
Family Serpulidae
Genus Serpula
Species columbiana
Common Name:  

Red- trumpet Calcareous tubeworm
This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students, faculty, staff and volunteers of
Lester B. Pearson College
May 2010
Garry Fletcher

Dodecaceria fewkesi: Fringed filament worm–The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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This tube worm has calcareous tubes cemented together. Small blackish-brown tentacles protrude from a raised rim of the tube,

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Dodecaceria fewkesi by Ryan Murphy, April, 2010

See Ryan’s underwater set on Flickr with a range of invertebrates:

Serpula columbiana from the photo above along with at least two other species of Polychaete. Dodecaceria concharum Dodecaceria fewkesi and a lined chiton,a nudibranch and Balanophyllia elegans the orange cup coral along with an unknown species of crab.

Serpula columbiana from the photo above along with at least two other species of Polychaete. Dodecaceria concharum Dodecaceria fewkesi and a lined chiton,a nudibranch and Balanophyllia elegans the orange cup coral along with an unknown species of crab.

Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Subclass Canalipalpata
Order Terebellida
Sub Order Cirrabuliformia
Family Cirrabulidae
Genus Dodecaceria
Species fewkesi
Common Name: Fringed filament worm
Other Annelids at Race Rocks

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pearsonlogo2_f2The Race Rocks taxonomy is a collaborative venture originally started with the Biology and Environmental Systems students of Lester Pearson College UWC. It now also has contributions added by Faculty, Staff, Volunteers and Observers on the remote control webcams. Garry Fletcher with underwater photography of Ryan Murphy

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