Charlie Carpenter found several clingfish today under rocks at low tide on the mid-north section of Taylor Beach .
| Kingdom: Animalia | |
| Phylum: Chordata | |
| Class: Actinopterygii | |
| Order: Gobiesociformes | |
| Family: Gobiesocidae | |
| Genus: Gobiesox | |
| Species: G. maeandricus | |
| Binomial name: Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard, 1858) |
June 8, 2013: Charlie Carpenter my neighbour arrived from next door with a bucket with a 15cm. gunnel and cling-fish he had found down on the rocky intertidal at the mid-north section of Taylor Beach. We took this photo for the species list before returning it.
These gunnels live under the rocks which are exposed at low tide.
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Chordata |
| Class: Actinopterygii |
| Order: Perciformes |
| Family: Pholidae |
| Genus: Apodichthys |
| Species: A. flavidus |
| Binomial name Apodichthys flavidus, Girard, 1854 |
Tonicella lineata, the lined chiton : These photos taken in May, 2013 were submitted by Gretchen Markle . They were taken on the area known as Laird’s Beach (on Parry Bay south of Taylor Road)
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Polyplacophora |
| Order: Neoloricata |
| Family: Ischnochitonidae |
| Genus: Tonicella |
| Species: T. lineata |
| Binomial name:Tonicella lineata , Wood, 1815 |
Cryptolithoides sitchensis, the turtle crab : These photos taken in May, 2013 were submitted by Gretchen Markle . They were taken on the area known as Laird’s Beach (on Parry Bay south of Taylor Road)
Also see another more colourful example of this species found at Christopher Point by a diving student in the Pearson College Marine Science class in October, 2014
Cryptolithoides sitchensis, turtle crab
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Cryptolithodes
Species: C. sitchensis
Cryptolithodes sitchensis (Brandt, 1853 [1]