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The eastern Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) is a coastal marine mammal found along the Pacific coast of North America, ranging from Alaska down to Baja California. As a true seal of the family Phocidae, it lacks external ear flaps and moves on land by undulating on its belly. The subs...
Dosidicus gigas, the Humboldt squid, is a large aggressive predator of the eastern Pacific's Humboldt Current, reaching 1.5 m and caught in major South American fisheries.
The jewel moray (Muraena lentiginosa) is a marine eel found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, notable for the brilliant white spots flecking its dark, slender body.
The Pacific green spiny lobster (Panulirus gracilis) is a spiny lobster distributed along the eastern Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru, commonly found in shallow rocky reef habitats and harvested in artisanal fisheries.
The Pacific slipper lobster, Evibacus princeps, is a solitary marine crustacean inhabiting the eastern Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Peru and is the sole recognized species in its genus.
The yellow snake eel is a marine fish belonging to the family Ophichthidae, first described by Jordan and Evermann in 1887 and native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Panama moray (Gymnothorax panamensis) is an eel endemic to the eastern Pacific Ocean, notably cataloged by the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner in 1876.
The fine-spotted moray (Gymnothorax dovii) is a marine fish found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, distinguished by its yellow body covered in small dark spots.
The grey moray is a shallow-water reef fish distributed across the Indo-Pacific, recognized by its drab grey coloration and speckled small spots.
Lolliguncula panamensis, the Panama brief squid, is a small coastal loliginid of the eastern Pacific, distributed along the Central and South American Pacific shoreline.
Steindachner's moray (Gymnothorax steindachneri) is an Indo-Pacific moray eel named after Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), prolific in fish taxonomy.
