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Cryptochiton stelleri (wandering meatloaf)
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Stenoplax heathiana (large white), Stenoplax fallax (large pink), and
Leptochiton rugatus
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Stenoplax fallax
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Mopalia lignosa (woody chiton)
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boring pholad clam
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Mopalia muscosa (mossy chiton)
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Mopalia muscosa (mossy chiton) and Tegula funebralis
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Calliostoma ligatum (blue topsnail)
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egg capsules from the snail genus, Amphissa
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A slipper snail (Calyptraeidae), probably genus Crepidula
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Lottia paleacea (surfgrass limpet)
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Mopalia spectabilis rare orange variant, according to chiton expert, Roger Clark.
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This is an asexually dividing serpulid polychaete, Salmacina tribranchiata, we call the shredded wheat worm,
plus many Tegula funebralis (black teguline snails).
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Tonicella lokii (Loki's lined chiton)
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These are probably southern finger limpets (Lottia
austrodigitalis), not the similar northern finger limpets (L. digitalis). The two species transition in central California but it is
not a simple latitudinal pattern, and high intertidal rock ecomorphs are generally more likely to be southern finger limpets.
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Brown pelicans landing on California sea lion occupied White Rock.
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I watched a gull take apart a dead Cryptochiton stelleri, and actually manage
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Under Construction!