10 articles
How to identify a Pacific spiny lumpsucker: field marks, lookalikes, the suction disc, and where to actually find this walnut-sized kelp bed fish.
Tom Okafor ·
Meet the saddleback gunnel — the saddle-marked, eel-shaped shore fish of Pacific kelp edges, and how to tell it from true eels and its gunnel relatives.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Sea lemons are confused with leopard dorids, the Monterey dorid and the Atlantic sea lemon. A diver's guide to telling the real Peltodoris nobilis apart.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A diver's deep dive into the blue-banded goby's metre-scale world — colonies, ledges, nests and predators, and how to watch Lythrypnus dalli up close.
Tom Okafor ·
The masked greenling is a small, dark-barred reef fish of Alaska's shallow kelp and eelgrass beds. How to identify it — and the nest-guarding life it leads.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The starry flounder is the North Pacific's most river-loving flatfish, banded in orange and black. How to identify it, where it hunts, and why estuaries need it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The spiny sun star is a many-armed predator of cold reefs in both northern oceans. How to identify Crossaster papposus, what it eats, and why it matters.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the crescent gunnel — the crescent-marked, rock-flipping eel-lookalike of Pacific tidepools, and why its colours make it a barometer of the weed it lives in.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the penpoint gunnel — an eel-shaped Pacific shore fish that changes colour with its seaweed and guards eggs in a ball under the rocks.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The whitespotted greenling is the North Pacific's chameleon reef fish — a male in red camouflage, a female in grey speckle, and both ferociously territorial.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·