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    British Columbia Marine Species Photo Database by Derek Holzapfel

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Enjoy this collection of over 400 unique marine species photographed above and below the waters off ...
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    Buffalo Sculpin (Enophrys bison) - juvenile

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Boundary Pass access, 10', 10cm, juvenile that will later become very coloured refle...
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    Black Rockfish (Sebastes melanops)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Higgs Rd. 30' deep. Nice small school, but they are camera shy.
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    Blackeye Goby (Coryphopterus nicholsi)

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    Cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Hornby Island - A beautiful Cabezon guarding its eggs.
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    C-O Sole (Pleuronichthys coenosus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Boundary Pass, Pender Island, 20', 8cm (juvenille). Very protruding eyes that can move independently...
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    Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)

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    Black Prickleback (Xiphister atropurpureus)

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    Crescent Gunnel (Pholis laeta)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Peter's Cove, 20'. Also known as "bracketed blenny".
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    Giant Wrymouth (Delolepis gigantea)

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    Great Sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Boundary Pass access, 40', 10cm long, also known as "bullhead"
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    Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Tilly Point - East under cliffs, Pender Island, 35', 6cm long. Unbelievable, only the 2nd Grunt I h...
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    Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)-female

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    Ling Cod (Ophiodon elongatus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Pender Island - Brooks Point, a photo without flash
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    Longfin Sculpin (Jordania zonope)

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    Northern Clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Roesland, inter-tidal. 16cm. Amazing suction cup disk on unside eveolved from the ...
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    Painted Greenling (Oxylebius pictus)

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    Puget Sound Rockfish (Sebastes emphaeus)

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    Penpoint Gunnel (Apodichtys flavidus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Gowlland Point Rd ocean access, 15' deep among various red algae.
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    Rat Fish (Hydrolagus colliei)

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    Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island, Shingle Bay off Panda ocean access. 50', 7C. Not seeing to many of these lately.
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    Rock Sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Pender Island - Connery Cres - ocean access, 50', 15cm
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    Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Oak Bluffs, 50' deep. Amazingly colourful fish.
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    Sand Sole (Psettichthys melanostictus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Tilly Point - front of cliffs to East, 30', 15cm, a nervous little sole, kept swimming away before I...
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    Scaleyhead Sculpin (Artedius harringtoni)

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    Scalyhead Sculpin (Artedius harringtoni)

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    Shiner Perch (Cymatogaster aggregata)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Location: Boundary Pass ocean access. 2' deep, 10cm long
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    Smooth Alligatorfish (Anoplagonus inermis)

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    Spinyhead Sculpin (Dasycottus setiger)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Pender Island, Boundary Pass, 40' deep, 15cm long
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    Starry Flounder (Platichthys stellatus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Bricky Bay, 10' deep 30cm long. Was surprised to see this one in such shallow water...
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    Tidepool Sculpins (Oligocottus maculosus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Roesland Beach, inter-tidal, under rocks, 9cm long
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    Striped Perch (Embiotoca lateralis)

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    Tiger Rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, 45', 30cm
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    Tubesnout (Aulorhynchus flavidus)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Tilly Point, Pender Island, 20', 15cm. Tough getting a picture as these little guys never stay stil...
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    Whitespotted Greenling (Hexagrammos stelleri)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Shingle Bay, 40cm long, 15' deep. A playful and curious fish, kept coming up to me ...
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    Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) - Adult

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    Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) - Juvenile

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Pender Island - Bridges Beach. -40' first sighting of a Wolf Eel on Pender Island, and thrilled to ...
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    Buffalo Sculpin (Enophrys bison)

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    • By: Derek Holzapfel
      • Photo Location: Pender Island - Brooks Point
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    Painted Greenling (Oxylebius pictus)

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    Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)

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Painted Brittle Star (Ophiopholis aculeata)

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