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| Venus comb murex. Scientists speculate that the distinctively long and narrow spines are a protection against fish and other mollusks and prevent the mollusk from sinking into the soft, sandy mud where it is commonly found. Image ID: 12970 Species: Venus comb murex, Murex pecten | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended, feather duster worm. Image ID: 01061 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: Santa Cruz Island, California, USA | Squid eggs, La Jolla Canyon. Image ID: 01972 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Chestnut cowry, mantle exposed. Image ID: 00624 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Nudibranch. Image ID: 00639 Species: Yellow-marginate nudibranch, Cadlina luteomarginata Location: Monterey, California, USA | Pink abalone. Image ID: 01058 Species: Green abalone, Haliotis corrugata Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01062 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Nudibranch on calcareous coralline algae. Image ID: 01064 Species: Opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda crassicornis Location: Monterey, California, USA | Squid mating. Image ID: 02548 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Califonia cone, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02551 Species: California cone, Conus californicus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Flamingo tongue snail. Image ID: 02554 Species: Flamingo tongue cowrie, Cyphoma gibbosum Location: Roatan, Honduras | Simnia and egg cluster on gorgonian. Image ID: 02556 Species: Simnia, Delonovolva aequalis Location: Anacapa Island, California, USA |
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| Flamingo tongue snail. Image ID: 02567 Species: Flamingo tongue cowrie, Cyphoma gibbosum Location: Roatan, Honduras | Nudibranch on calcareous coralline algae. Image ID: 05285 Species: Opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda crassicornis Location: Monterey, California, USA | Squid egg clusters on sand. Image ID: 05407 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01035 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Green abalone with mantle fringe visible extending outside shell. Image ID: 09242 Species: Green abalone, Haliotis fulgens | Simnia and egg cluster on red gorgonian. Image ID: 01983 Species: Simnia, Delonovolva aequalis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Anacapa Island, California, USA |
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| Nudibranch. Image ID: 00704 Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | Krill and squid school at the ocean surface, moments before blue and fin whales rise to the surface to feed. The krill is likely Euphausia pacifica, the squid are likely Loligo opalescens. A thin cloud of pink krill gathers at the ocean surface, where it is likely to be preyed upon by sharks, fish, birds and whales. Image ID: 27152 Species: Krill, common squid, Loligo opalescens, Euphausia pacifica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column. Image ID: 10214 Species: Norris' top snail, Norrisia norrisi, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Common cuttlefish. Image ID: 11777 Species: Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis | Common cuttlefish. Image ID: 11778 Species: Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis | Common cuttlefish. Image ID: 11779 Species: Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis |
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| Common cuttlefish. Image ID: 11780 Species: Common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis | Red abalone. Image ID: 11822 Species: Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens | Red abalone. Image ID: 11823 Species: Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens |
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| Red abalone. Image ID: 11824 Species: Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens | Red abalone. Image ID: 11825 Species: Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens | Green abalone. Image ID: 12888 Species: Green abalone, Haliotis fulgens |
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