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Purple sea star by mary

8/17/2017

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​It is a purple Sea Star.
It is orange or purple.
It is to 30 centimeters across.
It has 5 legs. It has thousands of tube feet.
It eats mussels and shells.
 It is a predator.
It has hard skin to protect itself from predator.
It is a star fish.
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sea nettle jellyfish by erik

8/17/2017

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It is a salish sea jelly fish! Its color is yellow and little bit orange. It is the size of my face about. It has no legs and live in the deep sea. It has stomach and tentacles as its two body parts. It moves by swimming. It eats plankton and another jelly fish. The jelly fish is a predator of another jelly fish because jelly fish eat another jelly fish. Its defense is poison sting. ​
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Tiger rockfish by kiko and nao

8/17/2017

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Tiger Rockfish
(Sebastes nigrocinctus)
 
BY KIKO
The fish is called “Tiger Rockfish”
The tiger rockfish is orange and brown.
The origin of the name of this fish is a pattern of stripe.
It looks like a tiger and a rockfish.
 They live at shallow rocky reefs to 300 metres.
It is the size of 60cm long.
It has 4 fins.
The tiger rockfish has gills, a mouth, spines, eyes, and a tail.
They move by swimming.
They are a predator because they eat smaller fish.
They defend themselves with stinging spines.

BY NAO
It is a tiger rockfish
It is the size about 60 centimeters.  
It has five fins.
It lives shallow rocky reefs to 300metres.
It can swim.
It color is pink and black. And it has a striped pattern.
It is hiding in the rock.
It has thick lips.
It eats smaller fishes, but a bigger fish than them is natural enemy.
Another natural enemy is a shark.
I think it is a predator. Because it has fins.
There are also orange and brown tiger rockfish.
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sharpnose crab by haruka

8/17/2017

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​This animal is sharp-nose crab. It is red, orange and brown. It is the size to 5 cm across the carapace. It has 8 legs. It has a snout, a stomach, 2 claws and barnacles. (barnacles and other growth often live on this crab.) It can crawl, walk and climb. It can eat detritus and small invertebrates. It is predator. It has a shell and claws. It lives in rocky areas in the low inter-tidal and sub-tidal to a depth of 216 m.
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Sailfin sculpin by kaho

8/17/2017

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It’s a Sailfin Sculpin (eye-banded sailor fish)
It is orange, white, and black.
It is 20 centimeters long.
It lives in the inter-tidal and upto 110 meters. 
It has 7 fins. It has special fin. The fin looks like a sail.
The fin is called the sailfin.
It can swim by waving. It eats zoo plankton, small crustaceans and so on. It is a predator.
Sometimes the sailfin sculpin hides its orange eggs in kelp hold fasts.
It can swim and run away from its predators.
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