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The Salish Sea, showing the Strait of Georgia near centre, the Strait of Juan de Fuca below, Puget Sound at the lower right, Johnstone Strait at the extreme upper left, and the Pacific Ocean at lower left. Sediment from the Fraser River is visible as a greenish plume in the Strait of Georgia.
The stubby squid is a small species growing to a maximum mantle length of about 5 cm (2.0 in) and a total length of 11 cm (4.3 in), with females being larger than males. The head bears eight short arms, a pair of retractable tentacles and two large eyes. The first pair of arms is shorter than the others and the third pair the longest.
The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid (EN), and Pota in Peru or Jibia in Chile (ES), is a large, predatory squid living in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the only known species of the genus Dosidicus of the subfamily Ommastrephinae , family Ommastrephidae .
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An orca breaching in Hood Canal. The marine mammals of the Salish Sea are numerous and diverse, both in taxonomy and morphology. A total of six species of pinnipeds, eight species of baleen whales, seventeen species of toothed whales, and one mustelid (the sea otter) inhabiting the local waters of the Salish Sea and the outer coastal waters over the continental shelf off Washington and British ...
The tank exhibits hundreds of species that would be found in Puget Sound including salmon, lingcod, sharks, sturgeon, skates, and rockfish. [28] Birds and Shores is an open-air habitat housing Puget Sound natives such as tufted puffins, rhinoceros auklets, common murres, and black oystercatchers. The habitat includes tidal pools and rocky ...
Xipholeptos is a genus of squid in the family Idiosepiidae. [4] It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Xipholeptos notoides, [5] commonly known as the southern pygmy squid. [1] The species was originally classified as Idiosepius notoides. The southern pygmy squid is native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, off southern and ...
The Puget Sound Museum of Natural History is closely associated with the Department of Biology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, United States. . Founded in 1946, it was one of the primary natural history museums in the state of Washington in its early years and has continued to the present to remain active in building up its coll