The purple #seastar aka #OchreSeastar - Pisaster ochraceus - is one of the most commonly found #starfish along the coasts of #BritishColumbia. You can see they have thousands of tiny feet on their legs to help them move around.
The purple sea star is considered a #KeystoneSpecies & an essential indicator of #OceanHealth in #intertidal zone.
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It was a beautiful sunny day for a dive in late October, but the critters were mostly in hiding. I did find a small short bigeye early in the dive, so I spent some time working on some different images.
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Here Ammi introduces some of the characters who live in the seagrass, & shows us part of their home.
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#razorfish #pipefish #seahorse #nudibranch #seastar #seagrass #habitat #IconicFishes #AmmiLeong
This time we’ll be seeing all of the ‘invertebrates’ made in the Panini mini series. This is probably the most taxonomically broad one, and also the largest group. They’d also be among the more difficult ones to identify to species, but sometimes guesses can be made. On the upside, the small size makes them appropriate for dioramas and accessories with conventional figures. As long as the […]
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