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| School of juvenile North Pacific Yellowtail, attracted to nearby drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 02749 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue whale, dorsal aspect of peduncle stem and fluke, Baja California. Image ID: 03029 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Ocean sunfish, dorsal fin at water surface, open ocean. Image ID: 03310 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Blue whale, dorsal aspect of caudal stem, Baja California (Mexico). Image ID: 03330 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, dorsal aspect of caudal stem, Baja California (Mexico). Image ID: 03340 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale surfacing, dorsal fin, Baja California (Mexico). Image ID: 03344 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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| North Pacific Yellowtail under drift kelp paddy, open ocean. Image ID: 03772 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin showing fresh scarring from social interactions with other Rissos dolphins. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04964 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04965 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04966 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04967 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, dorsal fin.Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 04969 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Silky shark, dorsal fin breaking surface. Image ID: 05015 Species: Silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica | Silky shark, dorsal fin breaking surface. Image ID: 05016 Species: Silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica | North Pacific Yellowtail, schooling, open ocean under drift kelp. Image ID: 05204 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi |
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| Gray whale dorsal aspect showing injury/wound/indentation likely caused by boat, Laguna San Ignacio. Image ID: 06426 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico | Gray whale dorsal aspect showing characteristic skin mottling and ectoparasitic barnacles and whale lice (amphipod crustaceans), Laguna San Ignacio. Image ID: 06427 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico | Starfish (sea star), dorsal surface detail. Image ID: 07011 Location: Punte Vicente Roca, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Starfish (sea star), dorsal surface detail including spines and pincers. Image ID: 07013 Species: Giant sea star, Pisaster giganteus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Starfish (sea star), dorsal surface detail including spines and pincers. Image ID: 07014 Species: Giant sea star, Pisaster giganteus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Starfish (sea star), dorsal surface detail. Image ID: 07017 Location: Punte Vicente Roca, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| North Pacific Yellowtail, schooling, open ocean under drift kelp. Image ID: 07078 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi | North Pacific Yellowtail, schooling, open ocean under drift kelp. Image ID: 07079 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi | North Pacific Yellowtail, schooling, open ocean under drift kelp. Image ID: 07080 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi |
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| A blue whale rounds out at the surface. Note its scarred, almost totally absent dorsal fin. Offshore Coronado Islands. Image ID: 07114 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | North Pacific Yellowtail, circling offshore drift kelp pursuing smaller fishes which congregate around the kelp paddy. Image ID: 07157 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07572 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07574 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07575 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07576 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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