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These are just a few of the pictures I've taken over the last couple of years, here along the beautiful Southern California coast line.

To see the name of each critter, pause your mouse over it's
thumbnail picture.  Click on a thumbnail to see the larger image
of the picture.


So. California Marine Life Pictures

JKPhotoGlry/Sarcastic-Fringehead.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Lobster-SideView.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Spanish-Shawl-Nudibranch.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Tube-Anenome.jpg
JKPhotoGlry/Cabezon.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Feather-Duster-Worms.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Bat-Star--Girabaldi.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Lightbulb-Tunicate.jpg
JKPhotoGlry/Girabaldi.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Morray-Eel.jpg JKPhotoGlry/Market-Squid.jpg JKPhotoGlry/California-Sea-Hare.jpg
JKPhotoGlry/Brown-Cup-Coral.jpg

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Following are the places where my pictures have been published!


August 18, 2009 - A series of my pictures showing Spanish Shawl Nudibranchs mating, was published on the Australian Sea Slug Forum.  These are some of my better shots!  I hope you enjoy them!


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June 4, 2009 - I had a picture of a Pacific Staghorn Sculpin published on the University of California - California Fish Website.  Come check it out (it's not one of my better photo's, but it was more than they had, so they put it up)!


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Nov. 2008 - The above picture of the California Sea Hare was published in
this months edition of a psychology magazine called "Mente & Cérebro"
(“Mind and Brain”) in Brazil, part of Scientific American Brazils
group.  The picture was taken at Divers Cove in Laguna Beach, CA
by Jonathan Klenk.
The caption put next to the photo (translated from Portuguese) reads,
"Experience with the California Sea Hare - Aplysia Californica -
made the study on the formation of memory possible." 

The first paragraph of the associated article (translated from Portuguese) reads,
"Eric Richard Kandel began his research in neurobiology investigating the
California Sea Hare - the Aplysia Californica - and finished innovating the studies
of neurology and the formation of memory. Studying this mollusk, that possesses
just a few thousand large, easily-identified neurons, the scientist identified the
genes and the proteins that make memory possible in the neural cells.
The mechanisms that it unmasked has opened the doors for innumerable studies
on the human mind, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine of 2000."


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Feb. 2008 - The above picture of the Market Squid mating was
published in this months (Jan/Feb) edition of the California Diving
News!  It included the caption, "Jonathan Klenk photographed
these two market squid mating (with a third one trying to horn in)
at Isthmus Reef, Catalina Island, CA. 


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The camera used for the three above was a Sea-and-Sea DX-3000 equiped
with a YS-90 Auto Strobe.  I now use the Sea-and-Sea
DX-8000 8-Megapixel camera, still with the YS-90 Auto Strobe.


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I also have pictures of the following available:

Abalone
Aggregating Anenome
Barnacle
Barred Sand Bass
Bat Ray
Bat Star
Bay Gobi
Bay Pipefish
Black and Yellow Rockfish
Black Eyed Gobi
Black Sea Hare
Blacksmith Fish
Blue Rockfish
Blue-Banded Gobi
Brittle Star
Brown Cup Coral
Brown Gorgonia
Cabezon
Calico Bass
California Halibut
California Sea Cucumber
California Spiny Lobster
Catalina Triopha
Catalina Gobi
Chestnut Cowry
Chiton
Christmas Tree Worm
Clam
CO Halibut
Colonial Sand Tube Worms
Colonial Tunicates
Crown Urchin
Cup Coral
Decorator Crab
Diaphorodoris
Elbow Crab
Fantail Sole
Feather Duster Worm
Fish-Eating Anenome
Fluted Bryozoan
Fragile Star
Giant Kelp Fish
Giant Keyhole Limpit

Giant Spined Star
Girabaldi
Globe Crab
Golden Gorgonia
Gray Moon Sponge
Halibut
Haliclona Sponge
Hermissenda Nudibranch
Horn Shark
Hermit Crab
Hydrocoral
Island Kelpfish
Jack Mackarel
Kellets Whelk
Kelp Crab
Knobby Sea Star
Lightbulb Tunicate
Lobed Tunicate
MacFarlands Chromodorid - a Nudibranch
Market Squid
Market Squid Egg Casing
Metridium Anenome
Moray Eel
Navanax
Navanax Egg Cluster
Neon Gobi
Norris Topsnail
Ocean White fish
Ochre Star
Octocoral
Operculum
Orange Puffball Sponge
Orange Sponge
Pacific Staghorn Sculpin
Painted Urtricina
Phoronid
Pile Surfperch
Porters Chromodorid -Nudibranch
Purple Urchin
Red Gorgonia
Red Rock Shrimp
Red Urchin

Rock Wrasse
Round Ray
Rubberlips Surfperch
Sabellid Worm
Sand Anenome
Sand Bass
Sand Dollar
Sand Sole
Sarcastic Fringehead
Sargo
Scaled Worm Shell
Scallop
Scorpionfish
Sea Hare
Sea Lion
Sea Pansy
Sea Pen
Sea Star
Senorita Fish
Sharp Nose Crab
Sheeps Crab
Sheepshead
Slender Crab
Snake Prickleback
Social Tunicates
Southern Staghorn Bryozoan
Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Spiny Sand Star
Stalked Tunicate
Strawberry Anenome
Sunflower Star

Sweet Potato
     (a sea cucumber)

Swimming Crab
Target Shrimp
Thornback Ray
Tree Fish
Tube Anenome
Turban Shell Snail
Two Spot Octopus
Warty Sea Cucumber
White Cucumber
Yellow Crab
Zebra Surfperch