Or a kind of pasta I never want to eat.
Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….
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the_chemist
Life of the Party
Someone got tired of competition.
Yes, that is the front half of a starry flounder. The light/dark pigmentation of the dorsal fin and the raised plates of modified scales (tubercles) help identify the carcass to species. Starry flounders belong to the right-eyed flounder family, the Pleuronectidae, along with Pacific halibut (vs. left-eyed flounders in the Paralichthyidae, such as the California halibut and Pacific sanddab). This appears to be a left-eyed individual as the opening of the gill cavity are at the top left of the individual. During its transition from the pelagic larval phase to benthic juvenile phase, the right eye would have migrated onto the left side of the head (can happen in less than 24 hours). There is geographic variation in the frequency of left-eyed vs. right-eyed individuals. The majority of individuals in Puget Sound are left-eyed. The percentage of left-eyed individuals in a local population ranges from 50% in California to 100% in Japan.
Steve
Seems like they swim up past Concrete but they don't swim back down.
Probably spawned out.
Sea otter bait...
the_chemist
Life of the Party
If only, Ferndale, Snohomish and Arlington had this problem.
Paige
Wishing I was fishing the Sauk
I've seen them above Startup on the Sky dozens of times when the river used to be open!
Been so long now, I cant keep track of anything anymore
Got a carpenters pencil double this morning.
SF
SF
Good job Stonedfish what fly worked that magic?
With the red or yellow eyes?
What the hell…that Puget Sound pumpkin has letters all over it!
Beware that faux pumpkin, Wilsoniana aurantiacus. They are NOT palatable. They are the models in a Batesian model / mimic system in which the edible pumpkin tries to mimic this inedible model. I suspect that this faux pumpkin was trying to escape the Salish Sea before Thanksgiving, but it was caught in a rogue current and washed up on the shoreline. Note the camouflage this faux pumpkin was trying to use with the green algae on its surface.
Steve
