Welcome to VicHighMarine! Explore the Fascinating lives of the Marine Organisms of the Pacific Northwest and Salish Sea with original photos, video, and research by Vic High Marine Biology students.

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Select a category of marine life below by group – these are all found in the Pacific Northwest and off the shores of Victoria, British Columbia

Plankton
Cnidarians
Ctenophores
Worms
Arthropods
Molluscs
Echinoderms
Fishes
Mammals
Birds
Tunicates
Bryozoans and Brachiopods
Sponges
Seaweeds
Flowering Plants
LATEST RESEARCH SUBMISSIONS - Interviews and organisms not from the Pacific Northwest

Latest Posts

Thresher Shark

Yellow Shore Crab

Red-eyed Medusa

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark

Three-spined Stickleback

Flat Porcelain Crab

Sperm Whale

Squat Lobster

Northern Fur Seal

Penpoint Gunnel

Purple Shore Crab

Greenland Shark

Western Sea Roach

Lined Chiton

Northern Kelp Crab

Green Sea Urchin

Taylor Coastal Shrimp

Black Turnstone

Sunfish - Mola mola

Octopus Skin Tricks

Blue-Ringed Octopus

Lemon Shark

American Mink

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Phronima sedentaria

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Sea Angel

Steller Sea Lion

Sea Otter

Humpback Whale

The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus)

Brachysira - Diatom

Hermit Crab (Pagurid) Megalops

Thalassiosira - Diatom

Chaetoceros sp. - Diatom

Hermit Crab Zoea (Paguridae)

Blue Whale

Belted Kingfisher

Bald Eagle

Lobed Comb Jelly

Great Blue Heron

Burrowing Green Anemone

Northwestern Crow

Proceraea prismatica

Striped Sun Star

Oregon Gumweed

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Yellow Social Tunicate

Yellow-Green Encrusting Sponge

Eelgrass

Mudflat Snail

Turkish Towel

Purple Olive Snail

Succulent Seaweed

Interview With Shark Photographer Andy Murch

Kelp Clingfish

Turkey Vulture

Sarsia spp.

Clinging Jellyfish

Gray Encrusting Compound Tunicate

Transparent Tunicate

Purple Intertidal Sponge

Velvety Red Sponge

Mushroom Compound Tunicate

Bull Kelp

Spiral Bryozoan

Kelp-Encrusting Bryozoan

Hanging Stomach Jellyfish

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Leuckartiara spp.

Pacific Geoduck

Intertidal Flatworm

Canary Rockfish

Coscinodiscus wailesii

Cylindrotheca

Thalassionema

Hedgepeth's Sea Hare

Ruby Octopus

Gammarid Amphipod

Clown Nudibranch

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Nanomia bijuga

Umbrella Crab

Common Raven

Harlequin Duck

Shag Nudibranch

Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

Crystal Jelly

Short Plumose Anemone

Painted Anemone

Moon Jellyfish

Witches Hair

Sea Lettuce

Pink Rock Crust

Rockweed

Dead Man's Fingers

North Pacific Right Whale

Dall's Purpoise

Orca Whale

Pacific Harbour Seal

Pacific White-sided Dolphin

Coral Leaf Seaweed

Pink Feather Coralline Seaweed

River Otter

Wolf Eel

Tidepool Sculpin

Spotted Ratfish

Spiny Dogfish

Smooth Dreamer

Slimy Snailfish

Calcareous Tube Worm

Rosy-lip Sculpin

Rockweed Gunnel

Northern Clingfish

Arctic Cookie Star

Marine Biology

Vermillion Star

Stiff-Footed Sea Cucumber

Six Rayed Sea Star

Sand Dollar

Red Sea Urchin

Purple Sea Urchin

Leather Star

Cushion Sea Star

Sunflower Star

Bat star

Blood Star

Armored Sea Cucumber

California Sea Cucumber

North Pacific Krill

Spot Prawn

Rockweed Isopod

Pygmy Rock Crab

Puget Sound King Crab

European Green Crab

Zebra Leafslug

Sitka Periwinkle

Red Dendronotid

Pacific Wingfoot Snail

Northern Abalone

Monterey Sea Lemon

Hooded Nudibranch

Gumboot Chiton

Golden Dirona

Giant Pacific Octopus

Frosted Nudibranch

Blue Top Snail

Black Katy Chiton

Barnacle Eating Dorid

Opalescent Nudibranch

Orange Hermit Crab

Rock Prickleback

High Cockscomb

Crescent Gunnel

Grunt Sculpin

Black Prickleback

Glaucous-winged Gull

Black Oystercatcher

Bay Pipefish

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Ctenophore Larva - Cyddipid Larva

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Barnacle Larva - Nauplius Larva

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Sea Gooseberry Plankton Tow

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Zoea

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Beroid Comb Jelly

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Barnacle Larva - Cyprid Larva

Copper Rockfish

Brooding Anemone

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Sea Gooseberry

Opossum Shrimp

Sea Asparagus

Dungeness Crab

Coonstripe Shrimp

Purple Sea Star

Canada Goose

Black Oystercatcher

Pacific Sea Nettle

Orange Sea Pen

Lion's Mane Jellyfish

Catablema Nodulosa

Fried Egg Jelly

Cross Jellyfish

Graceful Decorator Crab

Bering Hermit Crab

Silver Spotted Sculpin

Why us?

Student Generated Content

We encourage the students to learn to create and upload content that is used for research on this site.

Community Involvement

Being located in Victoria BC gives our students the unique opportunity to be able to observe marine life in their own backyard and for the community to take part also.

Contributing Globally

Our youtube channel continues to grow and gain followers each year that view our content world wide.

Contributers & Partners