Under Construction!

Sacred Cove, near Abalone Cove, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles Co., CA, February 16, 2018

-	-	-
-	Lepidozona pectinulata	-
Stenoplax conspicua (conspicuous chitons)	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
Haliotis fulgens (green abalone)	-	-
-	-	-
-	Volvarina taeniolata	-
Enchiridium punctatum (we call this the Dalmatian polyclad)	-	juvenile Chama exogyra (reversed chama, formerly Pseudochama exogyra)
-	-	Lottia insessa (seaweed limpet)
-	-	-
Ceratostoma nuttalli (Nuttall's hornmouth)	-	-
-	This snail is not in our book. It is not very close to the compared species here. It is Pteropurpura trialata (three-winged murex), a snail that especially feeds on Thylacodes squamigerus (scaled wormsnail)	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
The endangered species, Haliotis cracherodii (black abalone) is rare on the mainland of southern California since the devastating withering syndrome disease swept through the area around 1996 and impacted especially this species. - See here.	More recently, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome has impacted particular sea star species on the entire west coast of North America. This Pisaster ochraceus was the only one we saw that was clearly affected by this disease. See here.	-
-	-	-
-	-	Lottia gigantea (owl limpet) on its territory surrounded by Mytilus californianus (California mussel)
-	-	Anthopleura xanthogrammica (giant green anemone) is common in the central California intertidal but is rare except in the vicinity of Abalone Cove in southern California.
Anthopleura sola (sunburst anemone) is common in both central and southern California. Note the radiating lines on the oral disk.	-	-
Megathura crenulata	-	-
-	Pteropurpura festiva (festive murex)	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-

Return to Biology 317 Fieldtrip Map or Bio 317 Field Marine Biology Home Page