Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The body is brown when living on Macrocystis and green when living on eelgrass. North Puget Sound, Anacortes, Washington 802. The Sunflower Star Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, is found on a variety of subtidal bottoms and in extremely low intertidal zones from Unalaska Island, Alaska, to Baja California, Mexico. The largest, heaviest, and quickest moving sea star, it measures up to 90 cm in diameter.
Color ranges from orange to purplish.
North Puget Sound, Anacortes, Washington 803. The body is dorsoventrally flattened and from 25 to 45 cm long. Its color mimics Zostera, with a bright green base with brown-black and white spots. North Puget Sound, Anacortes, Washington 804. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings.