Pacific NW Fish and Inverts Study List revised 8/29/2016 Fish you should know! (learn Family for fish, and Phylum for inverts, too) Basic Fish Advanced/Expert Fish Scorpionfish Family Sculpin Family Black Rockfish Buffalo Sculpin Brown Rockfish Cabezon Canary Rockfish Great Sculpin China Rockfish Grunt Sculpin Copper Rockfish Longfin Sculpin Puget Sound Rockfish Red Irish Lord Quillback Rockfish Sailfin Sculpin Tiger Rockfish Scalyhead Sculpin Vermilion Rockfish Manacled Sculpin Yellowtail Rockfish Pacific Staghorn Sculpin Young of Year Rockfish - generic Padded Sculpin Deacon Rockfish Roughback Sculpin Yelloweye Rockfish Silverspotted Sculpin YOY - Yelloweye Rockfish Smoothhead Sculpin YOY - Copper Rockfish Spinynose Sculpin YOY - Canary Rockfish Spotfin Sculpin YOY - Yellowtail Rockfish YOY - China Rockfish Gunnel Family Crescent Gunnel Greenling Family Penpoint Gunnel Kelp Greenling Longfin Gunnel Ling Cod Saddleback Gunnel Painted Greenling Rock Greenling Prickleback Family Whitespotted Greenling Snake Prickleback Longspine Combfish Decorated Warbonnet Monkeyface Prickleback Surfperch Family Mosshead Warbonnet Pile Perch Slender/High Cockscomb Striped Perch Shiner Surfperch Left Eye Flounder Family Kelp Perch Speckled Sanddab Pacific Sanddab Right Eye Flounder Family C-O Sole Poacher Family English Sole Sturgeon Poacher Southern Rock Sole Northern Spearnose Poacher Starry Flounder Smooth Alligatorfish Pygmy Poacher Goby Family Blackeye Goby Ronquil Family Bay Goby Northern Ronquil Alaskan Ronquil Snailfish Family Marbled Snailfish Odds n Ends Showy Snailfish Spotted Ratfish - Chimaera Family Tube Snout - Tubesnout Family Skate Family Wolf Eel - Wolffish Family Big Skate Bay Pipefish – Pipefish Family Longnose Skate Plainfin Midshipman – Toadfish Family Pacific Sand Lance - Sand Lance Family Shark Family Blackbelly Eelpout - Eelpout Family Spiny Dogfish - Dogfish Shark Family Northern Clingfish - Clingfish Family Bluntnose Sixgill Shark - Cow Shark Family Red Brotula - Brotula Family Pacific Herring - Herring Family Cod Family Threespine Stickleback - Stickleback Family Pacific Tomcod Prowfish - Prowfish Family Walleye Pollock Pacific Electric Ray - Torpedo Ray Family Pacific Cod Quillfish - Quillfish Family Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker - Lumpsucker Family Invertebrates - all levels (common names generally as listed in Harbo's Whelks to Whales book) Porifera Mollusca Chimney Sponge Giant Nudibranch Cloud Sponge Opalescent Nudibranch Yellow Boring Sponge White Lined Dirona Yellow Margin Dorid Cnidaria Clown Dorid Fish Eating Anemone Leopard Dorid Plumose Anemone Giant Pacific Octopus Strawberry Anemone Stubby Squid Tube-Dwelling Anemone Leafy Hornmouth White-spotted Anemone Lewis's Moonsnail Moon Jelly Oregon Triton Lion's Mane Jelly (was Sea Blubber) Gumboot Chiton Orange Cup Coral Northern Abalone Orange Sea Pen Rock Scallop Pink Hydrocoral Orange Zoanthid Echinodermata California Sea Cucumber Annelida Orange Sea Cucumber Fringed Tube Worm Leather Star Northern Feather Duster Worm Vermilion Star Spiny Pink Star Bryozoa Basket Star Lacy Bryozoan Feather Star Fluted Bryozoan Sunflower Star Eccentric Sand Dollar Arthropoda Green Sea Urchin Candy Striped Shrimp Red Sea Urchin Coonstripe Shrimp Dungeness Crab Urochordata Giant Barnacle Orange Social Ascidian Northern Kelp Crab Shiny Orange Sea Squirt Red Rock Crab Glassy Sea Squirt Spot Prawn Graceful Crab Urochordata - Invasive Tunicates: Puget Sound King Crab Club tunicate - Styela clava Squat Lobster Invasive Didemnum tunicate - Didemnum Transparent Ciona Tunicate - Ciona savignyi Algae / Marine Plants Bull Kelp Eelgrass (Marine Plant) Giant Kelp Sargassum.