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Short intertidal exploration after individual progress reports on taxon projects, Dana Point, Orange Co., CA, April 11, 2025

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-	A Pagurus samuelis (blue-banded hermit), in a Mexacanthina lugubris shell with a Lottia asmi (black limpet) attached.	-
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-	shell of Haliotis fulgens (green abalone)	-
-	-	small adult Stenoplax conspicua (conspicuous chiton)
Lepidozona pectinulata	-	small adult Megastraea undosa (wavy turban snail)
-	small adult Stenoplax conspicua (conspicuous chiton)	-
-	I am guessing that the dead cormorants and brown pelicans that I saw on the beach were washed up after a toxic algal bloom evemt that I read about on southern California shores. The idea is that the toxins bioaccumulate after they work their way up to animals at higher trophic levels feeding on fishes that ate the copepods that ate the toxic diatoms.	-
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