Identificaciones de kellyccc

Common name: skeleton shrimp

Location: Boothbay, Maine, Grimes Cove

Habitat type: on seaweeds, hydroids, sponges, at low tide line

Physical description: series of cylindrical joints, mantis like claws with two pairs of antennae, less than 1''

Fun fact: stands like a preying mantis and snaps at its prey

Source used: Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common name: Northern Blood Star

Location: Found attached to a rock in about 15 ft of water. Nahant, MA

Habitat Type: Found on rocky bottoms, from low tide line to 2414m

Physical Description: Small disc and five cylindrical pointed arms of equal length. Two rows of tube feet. Small, equal sized spines that form a fine granular opening.

Fun Fact: It can absorb nutrients from its outer surface.

Marine Life of the North Atlantic - Martinez

Common names: Kelp Lace, Sea Lace, Lacy Crust

Location found: on the hard surface of the rock in the tidepool.

Habitat Type: Form on everything from hard surface to algae. Low tide line to shallow water.

Physical description: Lacy crusts of irregular shapes. Zooids are rectangular with a membranous frontal wall. Colonies spread several inches.

Fun Fact: Gets its name Kelp Lace because it is common on kelp where it can grow on the stipe and the blades.

Marine Life of the North Atlantic - Martinez

Common Name: Rough Periwinkle

Scientific Name: Littorina saxatilus

Location found: In the upper intertidal on Pumphouse Beach (rocky) in Nahant, MA.

Habitat type: L. saxatilus can be found on both sides of the North Atlantic (north of the Chesapeake Bay in North America, and north of the Straits of Gibraltar in Europe). It can also be found on the Pacific Coast of North America, but is restricted to San Francisco Bay (introduced species).

Physical description: The shell of L. saxatilus is less than 2 cm in height, with a defined "shoulder" between whorls. Color varies from white to dark brown.

Fun fact: There is high variation in L. saxatilus appearance in the North Atlantic, much of which is thought to be driven by responses to crab predation.

Source: https://www.exoticsguide.org/littorina_saxatilis

Common name: Dog Whelk

Location: Boothbay, Maine, Grimes Cove

Habitat type: intertidal rocks

Physical description: rough, thick and solid shell, pointed at both ends, 5 whorls, short spire, white to yellow, 1 1/2''

Fun fact: color of the shell depends on the food source (dark food produces darker colored shells, lighter colored food produces lighter colored shells)

Source used: Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common name: skeleton shrimp

Location: Boothbay, Maine, Grimes Cove

Habitat type: on seaweeds, hydroids, sponges, at low tide line

Physical description: series of cylindrical joints, mantis like claws with two pairs of antennae, less than 1''

Fun fact: stands like a preying mantis and snaps at its prey

Source used: Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common name: Yellow Periwinkle

Location: Canoe Beach, Nahant MA, rocky intertidal, alive

Habitat type: Usually found on rock weed and knotted wrack, inter tidally on brown algae zone

Physical description: round with low spire, four whorls, yellow to brown, 1/2 ''

Fun fact: this is a herbivorous gastropod

Source used: Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common name: blue mussel, found in a tide pool in Nahant MA, commonly found attached to solid substrates like rocks, docks, ect. Identified by an elongated bivalve shell often found in clumps of other mussels and a distinct bluish/ blackish/ purplish color, fun fact: an important part of the seafood industry. Source: Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew Martinez

Common Name: Tortoiseshell Limpet
Location Found: tide pool on Pump House Beach
Habitat Types: rocky shores, intertidally to subtidally, Arctic to Long Island
Physical: small oval, hat like, outside shell can be chekcered brown black
Fun Fact: only common limpet found New England Atlantic coast
Source: Martinez guide