Common Names - Oregon Institute of Marine Biology Slides & Photographs

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A-C

     abalone
     acid kelp
     acorn barnacle
     acorn worm
     Agazzi's peanut worm
     aggregating anenome
     albacore tuna
     albatross
     Alkali Heath
     American avocet
     American coot
     American flamingo
     American glasswort
     American goldfinch
     American oystercatcher
     American widgeon
     amoeba
     amphipod
     anchovy
     angelshark
     angler fish
     Anna's hummingbird
     Apid
     arrowtooth flounder
     ascidian
     ascidians
     Atlantic bumber
     Atlantic salmon
     Aurora rockfish
     Baikal seal
     bald eagle
     balloon fish
     Bamboo coral
     banana slug
     barnacle
     barnacle goose
     barn swallows
     Barrow's goldeneye
     basket sea star
     bat ray
     bat star
     bay pipefish
     Beach grass
     beach hopper
     bearded seal
     bear grass
     beaver
     bee
     beetle
     Bigfin eelpout
     big skate
     Bird's Beak
     black-bellied plover
     black-capped petrel
     black-crowned night heron
     black-footed albatross
     black-headed gull
     black-legged kittiwake
     black-necked stilt
     black abalone
     black banded angelfish or bandit angelfish
     black bear
     blackberry
     black brant
     blackeye goby
     black guillemot
     black katy chiton
     black oystercatcher
     black pine
     black rockfish
     black skimmer
     black tailed deer
     blacktail snailfish
     black tassel
     black tern
     black turban snail
     black turnstone
     black vulture
     bleachweed
     blenny
     blood star
     blood worm
     blue-faced booby or masked booby
     blue crab
     bluefin tuna
     blue goose
     blue green algae
     blue grouse
     blue lined or bluestriped butterflyfish
     blue mussel
     blue rockfish
     blue shark
     blue spot chiton
     blue top snail
     Blue whale
     Bocaccio
     bog orchid or ladies tresses
     Bonaparte's gull
     booby
     boring clam
     boring sponge
     bottlebrush seaweed
     bottlenose dolphin
     bowhead whale
     box crab
     brachiopod
     Brain Sponge
     brant
     brass buttons
     Brewer's blackbird
     bristle-thighed curlew
     brittle star
     broad rib kelp
     broad winged kelp or ribbon kelp
     broken back shrimp
     Bronze spot cucumber
     brooding anemone or proliferating anemone
     brown booby
     brown box crab
     brown coral
     brown garden snail
     brown Irish lord
     brown pelican
     brown ragfish
     brown turban snail
     brush rabbit
     Bryde's whale
     bryozoan
     bubble snail
     buffalo sculpin
     bullkelp
     burrowing anemone
     burrowing owl
     butter clam
     Butterfly
     Butter sole
     cabezon or great marbled sculpin
     Caddis fly
     calanoid copepod
     Calico crab
     California's sea hare
     California armina
     California berthella
     California datemussel
     California ground squirrel
     California gull
     California moral eel
     California mussel
     California quail
     California sea cucumber
     California sea lion
     California sea slug
     California sheephead
     caligid copepod
     Canadian goose
     canary rockfish
     canvasback
     caprellid amphipod
     cardinal
     Caspian tern
     Cassin's auklet
     Catalina triopha
     caterpillar
     cattails
     cattle egret
     cedar
     cedar waxwing
     chaetognath
     channelled top snail
     checkered periwinkle
     chestnut-backed chickadee
     chilipepper
     China rockfish
     chinook salmon
     chipping sparrow
     chiton
     christmas anemone
     Cicada
     ciliate
     cinnamon teal
     cinquefoil
     clam
     clam shrimp
     clapper rail
     Clark's nutcracker
     cliff swallows
     clover
     coarse sea lace
     Coastal cutthroat trout
     coastal strawberry
     coast lily
     Cobalt Sponge
     coccolithophore
     Cockerell's nudibranch
     cockle
     Coho salmon
     coil worm
     colonial ascidian
     colonial sea squirt
     colonial tube worm
     colonial tunicate
     common blue butterfly
     common bushtit
     common camas
     common crow
     common dolphin
     common egret
     common loon
     common merganser
     common murre
     common nighthawk
     common raven
     conch
     coonstripe shrimp
     copper rockfish
     coral
     coral dwelling butterflyfish
     coral fungus
     coralline algae
     cormorant
     crab
     crabeater seal
     crayfish
     crinoid
     crisscross network
     crown-of-thorns sea star
     cup coral
     cup sponge
     curlfin turbot or curlfin sole
     cushion star
     cuttlefish
     cyclopoid copepod
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D-F

     daisy
     daisy brittle star
     daisy coral
     Dall's porpoise
     Damsel fly
     Dana's blade shrimp
     darkblotched rockfish
     Dead Man's Finger
     Decorator or kelp crab
     deep sea sole
     deer fern
     Demoiselle crane
     Dinoflagellate
     Diomede's sapsucker
     dipper
     dock shrimp
     Dodder
     dog whelk
     dogwinkle
     dolphin
     dorid nudibranch
     dorid nudibranch
     double-crested cormorant
     Douglas Fir
     dover sole
     dowitcher
     downy woodpecker
     dragonet
     Dragonfly
     dumbo octopus
     dunegrass
     Dungeness crab
     dunlin
     dwarf rockweed
     dwarf skein
     dwarf sperm whale
     eared grebe
     eastern soft-shell clam
     eel
     eelgrass
     eel turtle
     elephant's head
     Elephant ear tunicate
     elk or wapiti
     Emerald Carpet
     encrusting coralline algae
     English sole
     Enteropneust
     Euglena
     Eulachon
     evening grosbeak
     fairy shrimp
     Fairy tern
     false lily-of-the-valley
     fan worm
     fat bogmoss
     fat gaper
     feather boa
     feather duster worm
     feather star
     festive nudibranch
     fiddler crab
     Finback whale
     finger sponge
     fire coral
     fireweed
     fish
     fish louse
     flabby whalefish
     flag rockfish
     flat-tip piddock
     flatworm
     fleshy Jaumea
     fluffy sculpin
     foraminifera
     Forster's tern
     fourspot butterflyfish
     foxglove
     fragile sea urchin
     Fraser's dolphin
     frigatebird
     frilled dogwinkle
     frog
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G-I

     gammarid amphipod
     gannet
     gaper
     garibaldi
     ghost shrimp
     giant acorn barnacle
     giant green anenome
     giant kelp
     giant keyhole limpet
     Giant owl limpet
     giant pacific octopus
     giant Pacific scallop or weathervane scallop
     giant pink sea star
     giant rock scallop or purple-hinged scallop
     giant spined star
     Giant water bug
     giant western nassa
     giant wrymouth
     glass sponge
     glasswort
     glaucous-winged gull
     glossy ibis
     golden-mantled ground squirrel
     golden eagle
     gorgonian
     gorse
     gray whale
     great blue heron
     greater scaup
     greater yellowlegs
     great horned owl
     great white heron
     grebe
     green abalone
     green blenny
     green ribbon worm
     green sea urchin
     grey gull
     grunt
     Guadalupe fur seal
     Guinea moray eel or spotted moray eel
     gull
     gumboot chiton or giant Pacific chiton
     gum plant
     hairy chiton
     hairy hermit crab
     hairy woodpecker
     harbor porpoise
     harbor seal
     hard-stemmed bulrush
     Hardhack
     hardhead catfish
     harpacticoid copepod
     harvest fish
     hatchetfish
     Hawaiian noddy tern
     hawkfish or Hawaiian morwong
     Hawksbill turtle
     heart cockle or Nuttall's cockle or basket cockle
     Heart crab
     heart urchin
     Heerman's gull
     hen and chicks
     hermit crab
     hermit crab or Miller's crab
     hermit warbler
     herring
     herring gull
     hidden rib or ruche
     Hilton's aeolid
     hog choker
     honey bee
     hooked slipper snail
     Hooker's onion
     Hooker's Willow
     horned grebe
     horseshoe crab
     Hubb's beaked whale
     Humpback whale
     hydrocoral
     hydroid
     Hyperiid amphipod
     Ida's miter
     Inca tern
     Indian sea egg
     indigo hamlet
     ink spot cucumber
     Innkeeper worm
     iridescent seaweed
     isopod
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J-L

     jacana
     Japanese squirrel fish or apanese soldierfish
     jellyfish
     June bug
     kelp
     kelp crab
     kelp greenling
     keyhole limpet
     killdeer
     King-of-the-salmon
     King crab
     king gentian
     kittiwake
     knot
     koi or common carp
     krill
     lacy bryozoan
     largescale sucker
     laughing gulls
     laver or cellophane or nori
     Laysan albatross
     Leach's petrel
     leafy hornmouth
     least sandpiper
     least tern
     leather sea star
     leech
     Leopard Moray
     leopard shark
     lesser scaup
     light bulb tunicate
     limpet
     limpkin
     lingcod
     lion nudibranch
     little blue heron
     littleneck
     Lizard
     Lizard fish
     lobster
     long-billed curlew
     long-billed marsh wren
     longfin dragonfish
     longnose butterflyfish or forceps butterflyfish
     longnose lancet fish
     longnose skate
     long spined sea urchin
     long spine urchin
     louvar
     lugworm
     Luna moth
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M-O

     Macfarland's chromodorid
     macoma
     mallard duck
     marine mite
     Mariposa Lily
     Mariposa or Sego Lily
     marsh hawk
     mayfly
     melon-headed whale
     mew gull
     millipede
     Mississippi kite
     mole crab
     monkeyface eel
     Monterey dorid or false sea lemon
     Monterey turban snail
     moonglow anemone
     moon jellyfish
     moon snail
     moose
     Morish idol
     morning sun star
     moss
     moss crab or masking crab
     mossy chiton
     moth
     mottled sea star
     mountain sneezeweed
     mud dog whelk
     mud shrimp
     mule deer
     multiband butterflyfish
     mussel
     mute swan
     mysid
     Nanaimo dorid nudibranch
     nautilus
     Nematode
     Nene or Hawaiian goose
     netted bat fish
     Nipple Sponge
     Northern anchovy
     northern bladder chain
     Northern Clingfish
     Northern elephant seal
     Northern flicker or yellow-shafted flicker
     Northern phalarope
     Northern right whale dolphin
     Northwestern crow
     nudibranch
     Ocean pink shrimp
     ocean sunfish
     ochre star
     octopus
     olivaceous cormorant
     opah
     Opalescent nudibranch
     opal eye
     orache
     orange-crowned warbler
     orange cup coral
     orange sea cucumber
     orange striped anemone
     orange tube coral
     orca or killer whale
     Oregon junco
     ornate butterflyfish
     osprey
     ostrich plume hydroid
     oyster
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P-R

     Pacific blackdragon
     Pacific bottlenose dolphin
     Pacific cod
     Pacific corambe
     Pacific electric ray
     Pacific gaper or horse clam
     Pacific giant salamader
     Pacific hagfish
     Pacific hake
     Pacific halibut
     Pacific lamprey
     Pacific lancet fish
     Pacific littleneck or rock cockle
     pacific ocean perch
     Pacific oyster
     Pacific razor clam
     Pacific right whale
     Pacific rock crab
     Pacific sandab
     Pacific sand crab
     Pacific Spade fish
     Pacific viperfish
     Pacific white-sided dolphin
     paintbrush
     Paintbrush owl-clover
     painted greenling
     Paper nautilus
     parasitic jaeger
     parrot fish
     passenger pigeon
     pea crab
     peanut worm
     peat moss
     Pelagic cormorant
     pencil urchin
     penguin
     penpoint gunnel
     Penstemon
     peregrine falcon
     pericarida
     periwinkle
     Peruvian booby
     petrale sole
     phoronid
     pigeon guillemot
     pileperch
     pilot whale
     pincushion sea star
     pinfish
     pink tail triggerfish
     pintail
     pipefish
     pismo clam
     pitcher plant
     plainfin midshipman
     plover
     plumose sea anemone
     polychaete worm
     pomarine jaeger
     porcelain crab
     porcupine fish
     Porter's chromodorid
     Port Orford cedar
     portunid crab
     Potato bug
     pronghorn antelope
     pseudoscorpion
     ptarmigan
     pteropod
     puffball
     purple dwarf venus
     Purple jellyfish
     purple olive
     purple ring top snail
     purple sea urchin
     purple shore crab
     purple sponge
     purple striped jellyfish
     pygmy poacher
     pygmy rock crab
     pygmy sperm whale
     pyramid butterflyfish
     raccoon
     raccoon butterflyfish
     rainbow sea star
     rat tail sea cucumber
     ray
     red-billed tropicbird
     red-breasted merganser
     red-tailed hawk
     red-winged blackbird
     red abalone
     redbanded rockfish
     red gorgonian
     red lined chiton
     red necked grebe
     red phalarope
     red ribbon
     red ribbon worm
     red rock crab
     red sea urchin
     Red sponge
     red squirrel fish
     redtail surfperch
     red throated loon
     red wing
     reef heron
     rex sole
     rhizocephalid
     ribbed limpet
     ribbon seal
     ring-billed gull
     ring-necked pheasant
     ring-tailed lemur
     ringed seal
     ring top snail
     Risso's dolphin
     roadrunner
     robust blacksmelt
     rock crab
     rockfish
     rock scallop
     rockweed
     Rooster comb oyster
     Rooster crab
     rose sea star
     Ross seal
     Rotifer
     rough-legged hawk
     rough-toothed dolphin
     rough-winged swallow
     rough keyhole limpet
     rough piddock
     round leaved sundew
     round sting ray
     ruddy duck
     ruddy turnstone
     Rufous hummingbird
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S-U

     sabellid tube worm
     sabellid worm
     sablefish
     sacoglossan
     saddleback butterflyfish
     sage grouse
     salmon
     salmonberry
     salp
     salt marsh sandspurry
     sanddab
     sand dollar
     sanderlings
     sandhill crane
     San Diego dorid
     sand sole
     sand star
     scale worm
     scallop
     scarlet gilia or skyrocket
     Scotch broom
     screech owl
     sculpin
     sea anemone
     sea arrow-grass
     sea brush
     sea cabbage
     Sea comb
     sea cucumber
     sea fan
     sea fern hydroid
     sea fungus
     seagrass laver or red fringe
     sea gull
     Sea Hair
     sea hare
     sea horse
     seal
     sea lemon nudibranch
     sea lettuce
     sea lion
     sea milkwort
     sea mouse
     sea nettle
     sea otter
     sea palm
     sea pen
     sea potato
     searobin
     sea sac
     seashore saltgrass
     seaside plantain
     sea spider
     sea star
     sea strawberry
     sea turtle
     sea urchin
     sedge
     seersucker or ribbed kelp
     Sego Lily
     self-heal of heal-all or mint
     sergeant major
     serpulid worm
     shaggy rug nudibranch
     shark
     shearwater
     shipworm
     Shore pine
     short-billed dowitcher
     short-finned pilot whale
     shortbelly rockfish
     short spined sea urchin
     shortspine thornyhead
     shovel headed shark
     shrimp
     silver-spotted sculpin
     Sitka shrimp
     Sitka Spruce
     six armed sea star
     sixgill shark
     skate
     skein
     skipjack tuna
     skua
     skunk cabbage
     slender barracudina
     slender sole
     slipper sea cucumber
     snail
     snake
     snipe
     snow goose
     snowy egret
     snowy owl
     sockeye salmon
     soft-stemmed bulrush
     soft coral
     Solitary wasp
     song sparrow
     Sooty shearwater
     sooty tern
     sora
     South American cormorant
     Spanish dancer
     Spanish shawl
     sparrow hawk
     speckled butterflyfish
     speckled sanddab
     sperm whale
     spider
     Spinner dolphin
     spiny brachiopod
     spiny dogfish
     spiny lithode crab
     spiny lobster
     spiny red sea star
     splendid starling
     splitnose rockfish
     sponge
     spotfish
     spotted aglaia
     Spotted eagle ray
     spotted porcupine fish
     spotted ratfish
     spotted triopha
     spruce grouse
     squat lobster
     squid
     squirrel
     Squirrel fish
     staghorn felt
     stalked jellyfish
     stalked or goose neck barnacle
     stalked tunicate
     starlet anemone
     starry flounder
     Steer's head
     Steller's jay
     stickleback
     stilt sandpiper
     stingray
     Stone crab
     stonecrop
     strap kelp
     strawberry anemone
     striped bass
     striped butterflyfish
     striped dogwinkle
     Striped dolphin
     striped shore crab
     striped skunk
     striped sun star
     striped surfperch
     stripey or scorpidfish
     sturgeon
     sugar kelp
     sunflower star
     sun star
     surfbird
     surf grass
     surfperch
     surf scoter
     Swainson's hawk
     swallow
     swallowtail butterfly
     sweet pea or vetch
     tadpole shrimp
     tansy leaved evening primrose
     tapeworm
     Tarantula
     tar spot sea cucumber
     Taylor's sea hare
     teardrop butterflyfish
     tellin
     terebellid worm
     thickclaw porcelain crab
     thistle
     thrasher
     Threadfin butterflyfish
     threadfin sculpin
     three-ribbed kelp or triple rib
     three-striped ground squirrel
     tidepool sculpin
     Tiger lily
     tochni
     topsmelt
     Townsend chipmunk
     tree swallow
     Trematode
     triggerfish
     trumpeter swan
     trunkfish or boxfish
     Tube dwelling anemone
     tubeworm
     tube worm
     tube worms
     Tufted hairgrass
     tufted puffin
     tunicate
     turban snail
     turkey vulture
     Turkish towel
     Turkish washcloth or sea tar
     turtle
     two-spot keyhole limpet
     Umbrella crab
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V-X

     valley quail
     veiled chiton
     vermilion rockfish
     vetch
     walrus
     wandering tattler
     wasp
     water flea
     waterlily
     water strider
     Weddel seal
     wentle trap
     Western grebe
     western gull
     western Lilaeopsis
     western lily
     western sandpiper
     western white slipper snail
     whale
     white-crowned sparrow
     white-fronted goose
     white-tailed kite
     white-tailed tropicbird
     white-winged scoter
     white bog orchid
     whitecap limpet
     white croaker
     white lined dorid
     white pelican
     white sea cucumber
     white sea pen
     white whale or beluga
     whooping crane
     widgeon grass
     willet
     willow
     Wilson's phalarope
     Wilson's snipe
     winged sea slug
     wolf eel
     wolf spider
     wood duck
     wood ibis
     woody chiton
     worf herring
     worm snail
     wrentit
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Y-Z

     yarrow
     yellow-bellied marmot
     yellow-crowned night heron
     yellow-headed blackbird
     yellow edged cadlina
     yelloweye rockfish
     yellowfin tuna
     yellow jacket
     yellow monkey flower
     yellowmouth rockfish
     yellow sand verbena
     yellowtail rockfish
     zucchini