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Fieldtrip to Dana Point, Orange Co., CA, February 20, 2009

Meeting by The Pilgrim	Another tall ship	Image Caption
Heermann's and immature western gull checking out a vacated spot on the beach	Image Caption	Undergrad TA Chrystal
Egregia menziesii in tidepool	Image Caption	Image Caption
Mytilus californianus beds	The rough limpet, Lottia scabra	Nuttallina fluxa (southern spiny chiton)
Mopalia muscosa (mossy chiton)	Image Caption	Image Caption
Lottia gigantea with L. scabra on shell	Nuttallina fluxa	Mopalia muscosa
Cyanoplax hartwegii (Hartweg's chiton) alongside Tetraclita rubescens (red thatched barnacle)	The limpet on the right might be a Lottia pelta that was formerly on Egregia, judging from its shell.	A fairly small Lottia gigantea (owl limpet)
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Back on its territory and crawling towards cover	Audrey	Through a sea cave
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Image Caption	Image Caption	Please, no cell phones during field trips
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Image Caption	Janelle	Ally
Taking GPS coordinates	Exploring the splash zone	Lottia limatula (file limpet)
Image Caption	Image Caption	Sargassum - species not determined
Anthopleura sola (closed) with hermit crab	Anthopleura sola (sunburst anemone)	A. sola
Megastraea undosa (wavy top snail)	Lottia gigantea	Chlorostoma funebralis or C. gallina with undetermined limpets (could be Lottia asmi but not very typical if so)
Same turban snail	Anthopleura sola with mussel and Pisaster ochraceus	Volcano keyhole limpet (Fissurella volcano), hermit crab on mussel, and banded turban snails (Agathistoma eiseni; formerly Tegula eiseni)
Lottia gigantea with Tetraclita rubescens on shell	Speckled turban snail (Chlorostoma gallina; ID tentative) and Lottia gigantea up against a clone of Anthopleura elegantissima	The same snail as in the last image compared with Sept's image of C. gallina (as Tegula gallina).
Image Caption	Nuttall's hornmouth (Ceratostoma nuttalli) with volcano keyhole limpet on shell, in front of black turban snail	Black turban snail (Chlorostoma funebralis) with limpets on shell (ID not determined)
Image Caption	Image Caption	Petrolisthes cabrilloi (Cabrillo's porcelain crab)
P. cabrilloi (same crab as last image, tentative ID)	P. cabrilloi has hairs on walking legs and carpus (wrist segment); its red mouthparts and the red spot at the base of the movable finger on each claw are difficult to see, if present, in these images.	Image Caption
Image Caption	Chrystal	Wishful thinking...

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