Identificaciones de sophiamadden

Common Name: Common Slipper Snail

Location Found: Pump House Beach, Nahant MA

Habitat Found: Found intertidally to 12 m on hard substrates

Physical Description: The shell is convexed with a coiled apex turned down to one side. Because the shape is determined by the object to which it is attached, some shells are flatter than others. Both the interior and exterior of the shell are white with brown markings

Fun Fact: These gastropods are often found in stacks where the bottom shell is the female and the top shell is the male. The shells in the middle have undergone a sex change and are hermaphrodites

Information found in Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common Name: Sea Lace or Kelp Lace Bryozoan

Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME

Habitat Found: Found growing on almost everything, from hard substrates to algae. Found from the low-tide line to shallow water

Physical Description: The colonies of this bryozoan are lacy crusts of irregular shapes. The zooids are rectangular with a membranous frontal wall. They are white in color

Fun Fact: This bryozoan is common on kelp

Information from Marine Life of the North Atlantic by Andrew J. Martinez

Common name: plate limpet
Location found: attached to rock in tide pool
Habitat types: found on rocks in the intertidal zone, usually found in waters less than 10m deep
Physical description: small, less than two inches in length, distinct dark and white pattern across shell, flat
Fun fact: Can have algae or barnacles growing on its shell

Species name: Metridium senile

Common name: Plumose Anemone

Location Found: Canoe Beach, Nahant, MA

Physical description: The anemone is a soft bodied cnidarian with tentacles around their mouths. The color is a soft salmon color.

Fun Fact: In warmer waters anemones and clown fish have a symbiotic relationship, and clown fish are not affected by the anemone's stinging cells

Common name: Fifteen Scaled Worm

Location found: Found under a rock in a tidepool. Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Habitat Type: Found around and under rocks. Intertidally to about 11,000'
Can live in brackish water.

Physical description: A wide worm with thirty-seven segments with fifteen pairs. Scales are thin and smooth. Head narrows to two blunt points. Color - variable.

Fun Fact: Has four eyes but on the underside of its body.

Marine Life of the North Atlantic - Martinez

Common name: horse mussel
Location found: tide pool, unattached
Habitat types: attached to rocks or algae in the intertidal
Physical Description: brown or black shells, 2-4 inches in length, shell has little hairs near the front, juvenile shells may be blue
Fun fact: Horse mussels are mostly inedible

Common Name: Rockweed

Scientific Name: Fucus distichus

Location found: In the low intertidal region of Canoe Beach in Nahant, MA

Habitat type: F. distichus is often found in the lower intertidal on exposed rock. It may be found from the Long Island Sound to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in North America, and on coasts of the UK and Greenland. It may also be found on the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada.

Physical description: F. distichus (ssp. edantatus) has long, pointed receptacles and may be up to 15 cm long. The length of the receptacles is often more than 4 times their width, and they may be forked.

Fun fact: Adult F.distichus individuals have high concentrations of phlorotannins, which makes them highly tolerant of grazing.

Source: https://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/1350; Illustrated Guide to the Seaweeds of New England (Martine Villalard-Bohnsack)