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Fieldtrip to Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve and Pacific Valley Intertidal, Monterey Co., CA, Part 4: March 31, 2009
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Headed south - view back towards Big Creek	-	-
-	Arriving a bit late for low tide at Pacific Valley	-
-	-	Finger limpets (Lottia austrodigitalis or L. digitalis)
From top, three largest: Lottia fenestrata, L. pelta, and L. austrodigitalis or L. digitalis	-	Ligia
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Lottia scabra	Sean	Mopalia hindsii
Nuttallina californica and Nucella ostrina egg capsules	Laney	Part of Ee Lab - S09
Anthopleura xanthogrammica	Lottia pelta	Owl limpets (Lottia gigantea) on adjacent territories (note the pattern from radular scrapings).
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Owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) in front of L. austrodigitalis (or L. digitalis)	Chrystal and Ally	Finger limpet rock morphs
This mussel and gooseneck barnacle cluster had a chunk missing - possibly due to becoming top-heavy as the cluster grew.	In the hole left behind were these pulmonate limpets, Trimusculus reticulatus	Serra
Lottia insessa (seaweed limpet)	L. insessa	L. insessa
L: Lottia fenestrata shell (note dark brown color between the muscle scar and the ; R: L. scutum is on the right	Trimusculus reticulatus	-
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Finger limpet	Finger limpets	Littorina keenae
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) in drift	Pterygophora californica stipes in drift	Finger limpets
Lottia persona (largest limpet)	L persona	L. persona
L. persona (top) and L. austrodigitalis (bottom; or L. digitalis)	Finger limpets	Finger limpet
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-	At the Lucia store	The Fernwood Inn in Big Sur
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-	At Nepenthe in Big Sur	Hummingbird feeder
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-	-	Bloody Mary and Guts Zomboma
-	Chrystal	Water fall at Julia Pfeiffer S.P.
-	-	Arriving back at Big Creek

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