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Fieldtrip to Cabrillo Aquarium and Pt. Fermin, San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., CA, January 30, 2009

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Northern elephant seal mural near the entrance to Cabrillo Aquarium
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Students completed a worksheet of questions about aquarium exhibits
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Touch tank
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The octopus was out and active
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Octopus bimaculatus, one of two SoCal 'two-spotted' octopus species. This one is usually subtidal and is larger than the one we normally see in the intertidal, O. bimaculoides.
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Painted greenling
(Oxylebius pictus)
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Am not sure if that is a parasite hanging out of the siphon.
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Giant keyhole limpets in touch tank (Megathura crenulata)
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Featherduster worm
(Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellidae)
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These (?green) abalones are in the same genus as the black abalones, the species that in just two weeks, February 13, is about to join white abalones on the Federal Endangered Species List.
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Mossy chiton (Mopalia muscosa)
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Make friends with anemone: Anthopleura sola
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Christmas anemone (Urticina crassicornis)
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Anthopleura sola
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Urticina lofotensis
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Anthopleura sola
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Sunflower seastar (Pycnopodia helianthoides)
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Warty sea cucumber (Parastichopus parvimensis), bat stars (Patiria miniata), and spiny brittle stars (Ophiothrix spiculata)
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The bat star (Patiria miniata) and (?) Panamanian brittle star (Ophioderma panamense)
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Leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) eats anemones and urchins
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Kellet's whelk (Kelletia kelletii) feeding on fish filets
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SoCal carnivorous snails
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More SoCal carnivorous snails
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Porcelain crabs
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Porcelain and sharp-nosed crab
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One of the hermit crabs we get in large shells
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Crab diversity I
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Crab diversity II
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Crab diversity III
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Crab diversity IV (cannot find a local Paramola sp. - these are king crabs)
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Globose sand crab (Randallia ornata)
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Globose sand crab (Randallia ornata)
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A huge California spiny lobster
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Sheep crab (see cap for scale)
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Sheep crab (Loxorhynchus grandis)
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Hemisquilla ensigera (mantis shrimp or stomatopod) - see movie of a mantis shrimp's smashing appendage here and more on this particular species here
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A mantis shrimp's 'apposition compound' eyes are highly unusual compared with other crustaceans, whom they diverged from hundreds of millions of years ago - see here
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Constant twisting and turning allows the mantis shrimp to accurately judge the distance to any object in the field of view, provided it is not too far away.
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California moray eel (Gymnothorax mordax)
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Rockweed gunnels (Xererpes fucoram)
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chitophiliac
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Mural of Pachygrapsus crassipes
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Brent, Nick, and Audrey
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Juvenile garabaldi (Hypsypops rubicunda)
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Blue-banded goby (Lythrypnus dalli) and strawberry anemone (Corynactis californica)
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Well-camouflaged flatfish
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Tentative: hornyhead turbot
(Pleuronichthys verticalis)
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Tentative: hornyhead turbot
(Pleuronichthys verticalis)
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Federally-endangered species, the white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni)
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Abalone life cycle includes trochophore and non-feeding veliger larval stages
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Ally and shark
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Intertidal at Pt. Fermin, near Cabrillo Aquarium (low tide was at 17:20, after dark)
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A limpet grazing on the featherboa kelp, Egregia menziesii. There are two limpet species that are hard to tell apart. One of them is Lottia insessa, a specialist feeder on E. menziesii. The second one, Lottia pelta, lives in a variety of microhabitats and it only resembles L. insessa when it is on or has recently been on this kelp.
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Anthopleura sola
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The territorial sequential hermaphroditic owl limpet, Lottia gigantea, the first mollusk to have its genome completely sequenced. There are also rough limpets, L. scabra, and acorn barnacles, Balanus gladula, on its back.
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Class photo (missing Oscar)
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Chestnut cowry (Cypraea spadicea)

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