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We drove through rain to and from sunny Abalone Cove: The Streak lives on.
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Lots of mud and unstable cobbles
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Ivan and Eric
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Gulls were foraging
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Good tide but rough conditions
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Janelle and Oscar
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Exposed mid zone dominated by Mytilus californianus and Pollicipes polymerus. Lower we saw Anthopleura xanthogrammica, which is rare in the intertidal of southern California.
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Waves were intense
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The scaled wormsnail (Serpulorbis squamigerus) is very common suspension-feeding snail in the low zone.
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Pagurus hirsutiusculus
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Lottia limatula, the file limpet, was the most common limpet on the sides and undersides of low zone rocks.
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Cyanoplax hartwegii, Hartweg's chiton
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Lepidozona pectinulata is common on the underside of rocks in the low zone
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L. pectinulata has pronounced sculpturing on its valves (shell plates) and scales on its girdle
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Field observations
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Nick
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Ally
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Diego
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Oscar
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Anthopleura sola is the most abundant anemone in the low zone.
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A. sola with the seastar, Pisaster ochraceus
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Probably Lottia pelta ("southern") on the feather boa kelp, Egregia menziesii. Note how the limpet had a more typical L. pelta coloration when it was small and probably living on rocks. The black younger shell reflects its shift to the kelp habitat.
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L. pelta ("southern")
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L. pelta ("southern")
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L. pelta ("southern") or L. insessa. The latter species is a specialist living only on E. menziesii. Dr. Eernisse's lab is studying these two species in California with molecular, morphological, field comparisons.
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L. pelta ("southern" or L. insessa
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The bat star, Patiria miniata
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The ochre seastar, Pisaster ochraceus, with purple urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
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Student Challenge: Can you identify this and the following brittle stars?
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Lottia limatula
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Cyanoplax keepiana (Keep's chiton), which is variable in its color, is common under small rocks in the most protected (cliffside) tidepools
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Until next week
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